[Week 5] Reflection-how can we put label on something when the world itself is undefinable?
Ganja and Hess(1973) is a philosophical literary film in my way of categorizing this art piece. Every part of the film brings up different questions for the audience to think about the meaning of the things in the world. There are a few parts that specifically caused my deep thinking.
As I mentioned in my forum post, everyone in the film seems more uncanny than Hess the vampire. The human interactions and conversations in this film seems more important than the thriller scene. The two scenes of the obvious attitude different toward Archie between George and Ganja intrigue me to question why did the director put these story of a housekeeper into the film, and what the contradictory attitudes suppose to mean in the entire movie. and how everything relate to the reading for this week about Blaxploitation?
Even when facing to the same person, Archie. Different people has different opinion about the person and put different label on him. George always feel grateful and thankful to Archie since he is working hard and always be patient treating his master. Even though the way George treats him might be too polite and seems like mendacity, he still gave Archie a "nice" label. On the other hand, for the same action, Ganja think he is too dilatory, slow, and gave him a “dumb" label. Different people has different opinion toward the same thing and it cannot be define which is correct or false. The behavior of the characters inside the film is hard to predict. The audience won't be able to assume what will happen next. When anything happen, all the unreasonable action become reasonable.
As I mentioned in my forum post, everyone in the film seems more uncanny than Hess the vampire. The human interactions and conversations in this film seems more important than the thriller scene. The two scenes of the obvious attitude different toward Archie between George and Ganja intrigue me to question why did the director put these story of a housekeeper into the film, and what the contradictory attitudes suppose to mean in the entire movie. and how everything relate to the reading for this week about Blaxploitation?
Even when facing to the same person, Archie. Different people has different opinion about the person and put different label on him. George always feel grateful and thankful to Archie since he is working hard and always be patient treating his master. Even though the way George treats him might be too polite and seems like mendacity, he still gave Archie a "nice" label. On the other hand, for the same action, Ganja think he is too dilatory, slow, and gave him a “dumb" label. Different people has different opinion toward the same thing and it cannot be define which is correct or false. The behavior of the characters inside the film is hard to predict. The audience won't be able to assume what will happen next. When anything happen, all the unreasonable action become reasonable.
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