Film Analysis

 CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972) Cries and Whispers is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Its themes include faith, the female psyche, and the search for meaning in suffering, and academics have found biblical allusions. Unlike previous Bergman films, it uses saturated color, red in particular.  The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters. The servant is close to her, while the other two sisters confront their emotional distance from each other. So as I mentioned, cries and whispers are mainly about the death of Agnes, a young woman who has cancer. As the film starts, we can see the disease is greedily eating away at her insides and causing her moments of tremendous suffering. We could see that at times, Agnes could barely breathe. She even wakes up from sleep crying in pain and begging for a cure. The process of dying is really trauma...

 RASHOMON (1950) Rashomon is a 1950’s psychological thriller/crime film directed by Akira Kurosawa and working closely with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. This film is famous for its plot device, which involves multiple characters, providing subjective, alternative, selfish, and contradictory versions of the same event. Rashomon is the first Japanese film to gain international recognition.  The two characters, the noblemen and the noblewoman were going through a forest. Suddenly the Bandit interrupts them, stops them, and then rapes the woman and then the bandit and the woman do something to the nobleman. The nobleman dies, but here we don't really know who killed him. So in the film Rashomon you get to see four different stories of who might have killed the nobleman. This particular thing is also called the “Rashomon Effect”, where the same story is told from four different perspectives and has four different endings. There’s no way to reconcile these stories. Rashomon is al...