Applying the Rubric
Key questions to consider:
- How is this a film about global culture? - Where is there a blurring of traditional concepts and boundaries of time and space in the film? - How are globalised communications portrayed? - What choices and circumstances have led Bob and Charlotte to this moment in time? - What are their individual responses to the changing reality of this globalised world? - What ways of thinking about our world does the film represent and explore? |
There is a clear collapse of time and space - through global, modern environments, travellers, jet-lag and insomnia and being out of step with time and the environment.
There is a navigating of both place and the self. Ways of Thinking: Postmodernism - Consumption and commodification - Search for meaning - Ambiguities Postcolonialism/Neocolonialism - How does the film 'write back'? - Exploration of Edward Said's 'Orientalism' and the notion of 'The Orient'. |