Guerra e Pace (Massimo d'Anolfi & Martina Parenti, 2020) - Extended Thoughts
Guerra e Pace's a film that felt such a timely viewing for me as someone who consumes a lot of media. Showing how extensive it is to counteract any act - how the defined image does more than just shape our thoughts - it's subtle in trying to indoctrinate our thoughts even at it's most subtlest that we barely pay attention to them. A case in point is the media studies section are looking at lighting in photography and it shows a picture of an American soldier where you notice the shine on the cap and subliminally it shows that whoever is the Army General/Sergeant etc. they are not really the most important part - it's the uniform. The person is the placeholder - the uniform is what matters. But it was a beautiful to watch them going through with the light metres as it made me nostalgic for the time that I did film and media studies. messing around with light metre as I said, making sure that the shading is right for the test subject so that there is no harsh shadows. Th
