Tuesday 17th January 2017 Moving Narratives 2. Kaz Rahman
Screening - Le Film "Pick Pocketer" 1959 by Robert Bresson
The film itself made myself as a viewer aware of the male leads surroundings, the people who come and go throughout his everyday life. I assumed that his close friend Jacques would have got pick pocketed towards the end of the film.
As the audience we aren't given much to think about, we sort of have to observe what's going on and link certain elements of the content together to work out what's happening. I myself though that the film was a lot about perspective, we wanted him to get away and we didn't see him as a villain.
The film contained themes of Crime and Punishment, the activity that was taking place seemed somewhat addictive, the pickpocketers practised the routines over and over, making them professionals at the stunts and tricks that they were repeating throughout the film.
There was a great use and style for the use of cinematography within the film, the way that the characters would move in and out of space, the way that once the characters have left the scene, the shot would linger on, creating suspense and building tension for us as the viewer.
The locations were pretty simplistic, around the town where he lived, he had his own bat cave where he could escape too and even hide what he had stolen, however his room was searched upon many occasions but nothing was found.
The performance was expressionless, the character took the same facial expressions throughout, no one cried as such which left the piece emotionless in my mind. I almost felt at times that the character felt anonymous, the way that he would appear and then didsapear, the only thing that made him stand out was the voice over and the overly sized jacket that he wore.
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