According to Jonathan Murray’s article titled “Two Days, One Night”, in one recent promotional interview, for example, Jean-Pierre Dardenne argues that he wanted to show how this woman, without realizing it, manages to inspire a solidarity that was completely lost in the workplace. Sandra's fear of losing her job inspired within her a newfound faith in herself and in the force of solidarity. The ability of people to stand together and support each other instead of favoring monetary gain enables her to feel happy because together she and her husband “put up a good fight”.
Frequently within the film, The Dardenne brothers establishes an entryway that isolates Sandra and whomever she talks with. At different times, when Sandra's coworkers are responsive to her supplication, the Dardennes still utilize a physical hindrance, for example, a low fence or a desk, yet they scarcely keep it in the frame. In these examples, the literal hindrance becomes less important than the figurative barrier, as the allegorical divider between Sandra and her coworker descends. The Dardenne Brothers utilize this procedure to make effective shots which
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serve to show the film's themes of separation and removal. There is also the notion of offscreen space, which can be essential in strengthening believability, and a sense of inner life when watching the film. The scene where Sandra is invited into the manager's office infers the audience to infer that Mr. Dumont was only offering Sandra the job again to take the blame off of him and hopefully relieve the tension that was caused with his workers. The Dardennes’ utilization of mise en scène in this film assumes a critical role in assisting the viewer to identify and connect with whatever is happening within a frame. The camera work is unemotional because throughout the film there are no close ups of reaction shots. Most of the time there's no reaction to be seen at all with the actors facing away from the camera. But the technique choices the Dardennes make - camera often at shoulder length, handheld, long takes, maintaining some distance from the actors - is similar to how we, humans, view the world in our everyday life. In the scene where Sandra goes to work for the voting, the Dardennes decide to show a few conversations with a medium shot camera panning back and forth rather than looking at both characters from some distance. This technique is essentially mirroring where our eyes would go. The directors further expands on realism by using the repetitive aspect of Sandra’s visits to instil a gentle but urgent rhythm for Sandra herself and the audience. Throughout the entire undertaking of the film, there’s a lingering of simple shots being attracted out to give a moment of settlement. For example, with the attempt to regain breath after a meeting with a coworker or a talk with Jean Marc at 1:24:30, lingers long enough for us to bond with her, to push us past the purpose of tension or anxiety. The Dardennes use of these simple lingering shots heighten the moments of regularity in Sandra’s world of personal disruption. During these conversations that dynamically illustrate the power of humanity and solidarity at both its most selfish and selfless ways, the audience can cheer on Sandra as she makes the journey towards a larger choice that has a far more noteworthy bearing on her life - the journey from the stasis of the opening shot of the film, where she finds herself unable to summon the energy to fight for her job to the motion of the final shot, towards whatever uncertain future lies ahead.
The opening and closing scenes both involve a cell phone, and Sandra physically alone. The Dardenne brothers present a visual rhyme between these two scenes to be blatantly stark and deliberate. At last, Two Days, One Night is successful in its plan to depict with caring realism the battle of work in this present reality where no snippets of weakness are
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For example, She notes that “ One of the women explains to me that teams do not necessary return to the same houses week after week, nor do you have any guarantee of being on the same team from one day to the next.” What this quote means is it explains the way the company tries to prevent the groups from making social contact. I can relate to Ehrenreich’s argument because while I was working at Jewel as a bagger. I had similar routines and experienced some of the ways that the system tried to work my body more than my mind. For example, while working there I was ordered to do many tasks to keep me busy and from interacting and making friendships with fellow employees. If this was allowed then we would be able to talk about how unfair our job is and how we are treated. The author tries to argue that her job keeps her mind busy and she won't be able to have time to think or react., in other words, this blue collar job is
Throughout the story “Walk Two Moons” written by Sharon Creech, Mrs.Winterbottom is faced with internal and external conflicts that lead her to change.
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Set in Nazi German, with the occasional interruption from the 1980’s Reagan Era, A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner has more in common with 2016 America than one may first imagine. Political upheaval in the wake of a devastating economic crisis and the rise of an influential and charismatic leader certainly may resonate with many in America today, even as this may not have been what the play write had imagined having written this play in the 1980’s. The story follows the events of the 1930’s as Hitler gains ground in Germany, and a small, odd group of friends who work to do their part politically. While some succeed more than others at finding a voice among the chaos, others are left behind in the wake of the war.
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Cleofilas grew up in a male dominant household of six brother and father, and without a mother, she no woman figure to guide her, give advice on life, or how to love a man. Cleofilas turned to telenovelas for a woman’s guidance on love and appearance, and she began to imagine her ideal life through the television series. Once Cleofilas was married she moved away into a home with her husband, were she pictured everything to be like the couples on the telenovelas, but she soon starts to realize life isn 't exactly like how they view it in the telenovelas. In the story Sandra make the statement ‘From what see can tell, from the times during her first year when still a newlywed she is invited and accompanies her husband, sits mute besides their conversations, waits and sips a beer until it grows warm, twists a paper napkin into a knot, then another into a fan, one into a rose, nods her head, smiles, yawns, politely grins, laughs at the appropriate moments, leans against her husband’s sleeve, tugs at his elbow, and finally becomes good at predicting where the talk will lead, from this Cleofilas
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