I watched Sofia Cappola’s work for this assignment and it’s
clear she has a style for leaving her work in cliffhangers. In the three movies
I watch “Marie Antoinette”, “Virgin Suicides”, and “ The Bling Ring”.
Personally I was most invested in Marie Antoinette and a little bit in Virgin
Suicide; both were very artistically pleasing movies very unique cinematography
in both, but what struck me more in Marie Antoinette is the solidified
character. We actually feel sympathy and
start to understand Marie’s hardships and pains as a young woman who is
isolated in a foreign country. One aspect of her life that I had real sympathy
for was when she was getting criticized for not push hard enough to seduce her
husband into having children with her. And that really left her and Louis in a
hard spot for years.
One thing that is common in all three of the movies is
message about greed. We see that with Marie the greed she has for sex, money,
food, and luxuries really brings her reputation down as a ruler and eventually
leads to her downfall. We also see the same thing happen in Bling Ring where
these rebellious teenager want a glimpse of a life they cannot possess and take
things that do not belong to them, and eventually their greed catches up with
them. And in Virgin Suicide the audience sees the girls’ chance of going to the
dance as a way of breaking out of their parents homes. Ultimately, because one of
the daughter’s, Lex, has a desire and lust for her boyfriend, we see her
clutching her freedom and this ends up being a punishment for her and ultimate
isolation for the rest of the sisters.
I do think that these movies aren’t necessarily suppose to be
satisfying for the viewer, but Sofia tries to tell their side of the story and
bring a message out of the character’s ultimate demises.
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