∆, pronounced Alt + J, had their music video debut with the song Breezeblocks which highlights the artistic and complex image the band has established. Their name alone is a symbol, introducing the audience to their ambiguity and mystique. This image is heavily mirrored in their music video for Breezeblocks. The video can be extremely confusing being that its main stylistic element is that the entire video is backwards. This is done for a variety of reasons that will be further examined in this analysis. The band originated in Leeds, England and is considered to perform indie rock, art rock, folk rock, folktronica, and experimental rock. The members include Gwil Sainisbury, Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, and Thom Green (About Alt-J). The bands …show more content…
There is nothing done to establish a motive, leaving the scene very open ended. To start, the video is backwards, and watching it backwards and forwards establishes different stories and perspectives. The opening scene flashes between frames highlighting the dead woman’s hand and the male’s hand bearing a wedding ring. The man is grieving with his face in his hands. This happens while the lyrics are saying “my love, my love, my love, love, love. ” leading the audience to believe that they are lovers and he is mourning her loss. However, the next events are shown in a manner that leads the audience to believe that an aggressive murder has taken place, where an unnamed woman is violently attacked by a male aggressor, and eventually drowned with a breezeblock. It is not until the end of the video that you are introduced to another woman who is taped and tied up hidden in a closet. The video highlights that she is also wearing a wedding band, leading the audience to now believe the other woman involved in the brutal fight is just that – “the other woman”. This changes the believed dynamic of it being an aggressive domestic dispute between husband and wife to being that of a husband trying to protect his wife from a possible deranged, psychotic, or just seriously upset ex-partner, mistress, or stalker. This makes the audience see that he murdered her in self-defense. However, this explanation does not account for a few critical elements: At the end of the fight, or beginning of the video, the other woman is now running terrified and has accepted her defeat by running from the man and into the bathroom, wherein the beginning of the fight and end of the video she initially maintained the power. It does not explain his look of disappointment, stress, and anxiety after committing the murder, instead of going to check on his wife who had been discovered tied and taped in a
them. He talks about what it was like living with them and how the different bands interacted
Therefore the film gives us an idea of what Stephanie would go through if she found out about the affair, harassment and what her husband has done behind her back.
Nevertheless, her attempts are futile as he dismisses her once more, putting his supposed medical opinion above his wife’s feelings. The story takes a shocking turn as she finally discerns what that figure is: a woman. As the story progresses, she believes the sole reason for her recovery is the wallpaper. She tells no one of this because she foresees they may be incredulous, so she again feels the need to repress her thoughts and feelings. On the last night of their stay, she is determined to free the woman trapped behind bars.
A film intended to reach an audience unaware of the issues, Ziering and Dick take their viewers on a mission to seek justice. In the beginning of the film, Ziering and Dick use emotional stories told by victims of sexual assault. This approach quickly bonds with the audience. Therefore, setting the tone of the film is personal and serious. Kori Cioca, a former member of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Their work encompasses many genres into one. The band’s musical influences are comprised of jazz, rock, blues, bluegrass, folk, and country. Also, the band began to gain popularity during the movement of psychedelia. Psychedelic elements can be heard in almost all of their albums.
This shows the irrational logic that is being used in the movie, as well as the use of environment to draw a basis for conclusion. From this they arrive at the same conclusion they had in the beginning, that being that the woman was a witch.
The women fought back and stabbed him because he was choking them and causing serious harm. Dwayne Buckle beats women and is homophobic. The film reveals that Dwayne Buckle posted on a website his views on same-sex relationships. He states, “We are not saying all gay causes are wrong. But we don’t feel it’s the same as civil rights, seems more like devil rights to us…80% of serial killers are homosexual”(00:29:28-00:31:02). The jurors disregarded this information even though it’s a clear motive for his behavior that night. The jurors in the case did not get the full picture of what occurred that night but they along with the media and prosecution went on racialized fears of gang violence. The media and prosecutors described the women as violent gang members. Attack of the Killer Lesbians, Lesbian Wolf Pack Guilty, and Girls Gone Wilding, were all articles from the New York Post and New York Daily News that portrayed the women as vicious thugs. What we view to be true in the media is in many ways a social construct. The media usually paints a one sided picture that we should claim to be
The climax is illustrated and clarified through the symbolic tearing or exposing of the bare walls. She wants to free the woman within, yet ends up trading places, or becoming, that "other" woman completely. Her husband's reaction only serves as closure to her psychotic episode, forcing him into the unfortunate realization that she has been unwell this whole time.
Unlike the other women, the camera goes directly to her face and is at a level angle, which in cinematology creates the feeling of power or equality for the viewer. Her active female presence continues throughout the video. The next scene she appears in is when Kendrick Lamar and a bigger male are fighting over her, as they fight she stands behind and watches, then eventually interferes while laughing splitting up the fight (TDE Films). Which then leads into her taking Lamar's hand, and them “melting” into the road (TDE Films). This scene demonstrates the power a women holds over a man, and the use of visual effects emphasises the active female’s power.
More deliberately, she staged the crime scene to make it look like self-defense just in case she had to admit she killed Travis.
Secondly, perverseness pushes the narrator to not only kill his wife but effectively conceal the murder. The
The documentary revolves around the media, which is something that tries to make you be something you are not. The media portrays women as unstable creatures. Some women have gotten comfortable enough to think this is the way
...the story concludes with the woman "crouched," still naked, "in the underbrush" below her house and marveling how strange it is to be seeing her husband at last after "having wanted so desperately to get home," and yet now feeling "no emotion" at what she saw. (138)
This crime took place at different time era, where domestic violence, wasn’t brought to the attention of the courts and the public. In article written by Find law, “Domestic violence became an increasingly popular issue in the 1970s and 1980s. As awareness for violence between intimate partners grew, so did criticism on the manner in which police were responding to the issue. Many believe that police don 't take domestic violence calls seriously because police intervention would be inappropriate in what some may deem a family matter
At this point the man watching the tape, who has been anticipating this moment, is trying to get the attention of his wife to watch the climax of the tape. Out of the blue, as the tape continues, the man is then seen shot in the head by someone out of