Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Questions Unanswered
After watching "Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen", I was left a bit confused. The narrator said multiple times that her friends would ask her what her film was about, and she would tell them a place in Africa. But she never elaborated on exactly what in Africa. I was deeply intrigued by the way of life of the women in the tribe, and how they openly displayed their breasts without shame. The narrator's statement that it was not inappropriate nudity for them struck me and encouraged me to not view the nudity with distaste, as I have been conditioned to do, but rather accept it as natural and beautiful, which it is. I also noticed the limitations of their work, how the women were confined to domestic work, but in the way that the narrator spoke about the tribe, she emphasized that the women were essential in the fact that they were the only ones who knew how to make the food and prepare it. I liked the calm atmosphere of the film, overall, but wondered what the significance of fires in the woods was.
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