Obersvation 10

Dear class,

This film is trying to show the importance of being seen and how having a special gift can be a curse. In his case he has an incredible sense of smell, however, it leads to him not having many social skills or being able to communicate normally. It also shows the differences between social classes by using colors. When the scene has richer people in it, it is full of color. However, when the scene is in the slums or a poorer part of the city, it is gray and colorless.

The visual rhetoric strategies appeal to the audiences' emotions and sense of sight. They "personify" smell by using flashes of visual rhetoric. For example, when Jean Baptist smelled a new or extraordinary scent the movie had flashes of things that appealed to the audience's sense of sight.


This movie was really creepy. It was full of death and naked chicks and everything. However, it does show a good fact about life - that being taken for granted and not having a sense of self is very bad for you. That's why nerds go crazy sometimes, like for example the horrific Virginia Tech shootings/murders.

Go Sox

Love,
Steven

P.S. I'm going to miss all of you when our class is over in a couple weeks :(