Vincent Farino

Bunny

I felt that the moth was the wife trying to be with her husband and she kept flying in the room and he swatted her away and she hit the picture of them and she reflected a sense of remorse and missed her husband. She then killed the moth, put it in her meal and, put the meal in the oven. Then she (the bunny) died from being so worked up and went in to the oven where she saw another moth. I believe the other moth was her husband reincarnated to bring her to Heaven. She then became a moth too. By the end of the movie when you realize what has happened it is a very moving film that demonstrates love and longing. There was also a great deal of symbolism in the film such as during the time she was annoyed there was fast, chaotic Jewish music being played to add to the annoyance of the Bunny. The oven was a passageway of transformation and the white dots on it became stars when she went through it. The story as a whole could represent death as it is always knocking at the door.

Northfork

The first scene eagerness and resistance in the same picture. They go to crossroads which represent the crossroads of their life.

The second scene the car drives through an open field as a man looks at another man and grins. Personally the grin that the older man gave the younger brought fourth an emotion of acceptance.

Paris Texas

This scene showed a man in a desert and he had a look of hopelessness. Then he follows the power poles and roads which are similar because they connect to communication. The next scene had symbolism within the imagery as the mountains behind Walt was normal looking, and the mountain behind Travis is rocky mysterious and uncertain representing his personality or voyage.

When he meets his brother he has a determined look on his face like he is looking at something. He walks again down a railroad track and still has that look on his face.

In the next scene he has binoculars now he can focus on things that are far off in the distance. It shows the shoes in the first part and that also plays on communication. The bridge in the next scene was another connector. He shot with his son seems like they are connecting in speech which is another connecting scene. The scene when he is talking to the girl who was his wife seems like she is scared at first, but then she is drawn to him. The next time he talks to her she knows his voice. She says it was easier when she just imagined him and says they would have conversations and it was almost like he was there. This scene reveals a sense of longing for him. The room behind her is complete but what she is looking at is a wall that isn’t completed which is similar to her own life and that of Travis. They talk on the phone which completed the symbolism of the phone lines which led to this point. As they talk more it seems like they had bad communication when they were together which also adds to the symbolism of the themes of communication and connecting that were present throughout the films.

Pink Floyd the Wall

The war just showed death and people dieing. This could represent how the band felt about war. That it only brought death and was wrong.

In the second song the kids look like robots with the education song. This could represent that they felt that the stereotype of people going to school to learn whatever they are programmed to learn was wrong.

The third song seems like they are sick of the material things of this world and that we try to fill ourselves with anything and everything to satisfy our desires.

In the next song the judge was a but-hole literally. Everyone is judging him for something in his life that was the key theme in this song. The song seemed to reveal that they were against authority.

Cabasa de Paca

The first scene shows the man running while a lizard is tied to a pole. Alvar tries to run away but he just comes back like the lizard who is tied to the pole. Everytime the lizard would turn over the man would fall cuz the Shaman used his evil power over the man with Voodoo.

The next scene zooms in on Alvar. This was a symbolism of being trapped and alone. He then reads a poem and the poem is a symbol of what is happening to him. He then goes into a fetal position as to relate to birth. By the end of the next scene it seems that Alvar is possessed, but really he is praying to his God the Creator of the Heavens. He then heals a man. There is a close up taken then of the Shaman and he looks at Alvar with a look of respect and honor for the power that he possesses.

The next scene had several Biblical undertones. The scene showed a dead woman that Alvar prays for and he tells the people to untie the woman. The woman is then raised from the dead just like Lazarus in the Bible who had to be unclothed to be healed. After the woman was risen he was in a crucifix position in the tomb, incorporating Christianity and the Indians way of life. The last scene was of the white men coming from Spain. They tried to destroy the village and take the Indians as slaves. Alvar who once was a Spaniard now sees that true Christianity is helping those that do not understand the truth of Jesus. Alvar had to experience what he went through to soften his heart to what true Christianity was. The destruction of this whole place is against the Chrisitian faith along with the slavery that is what he says to the captain. This reveals the transformation that he had with Chrisitanity that killing people and dominating people who are not of your faith is not true Christianity, and that there can peace with sharing the faith of Christ instead of forcing it.