The Host (2006)

Tim Roche
The Host (2006)

Visual Design

In The Host there are many subtle visual design elements that create the mood and atmosphere. The use of water both simulates life and death, water along with toxic chemicals brings life to the monster, the water although not really shown gives the park family the ability to sell such favorite foods as squid, while when the dad/grandpa died it starts raining to change the mood to sadness.
    With everyone scared of a fictitious virus we got the feeling it was bad with civilians and sick wearing medical masks provoking a little madness in the mass. The use of smoke also created the visual of deadly, smoke is used in the beginning with the morg. guy dumping the toxic chemicals down the drain as he was also wearing a re-breather and chemical mask. The use of smoke was then used again to weaken the monster and help free the two children.

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The movie over all was alright, it wasn't as good as I felt it could have been however it wasn't a total blowout and did good on some aspects that could have made it way worse. For example even though it wasn't a big background on the monster they gave some which allowed the audience to fill in the rest with whatever they want. I would rate the movie a 6/10 because it just didn't captivate me in the way most movies would.

Pan's Labyrinth

Tim Roche
Pan's Labyrinth


symbolism

Many parts of the movie had foreshadowing and symbolism to which the movie had little back stories on. One thing is the watch in which the Caption had took from Ofelia's dead father. When soldiers died they would smash the watch to record when they died to let their family know. In the movie the Caption, Ofelia's step-father, had taken the watch and fixed to try and erase any information and memory of Ofelia's father. Taking the watch and fixing it foreshadowed that he was going to die with the same watch and would hope his son would know about him. The Caption would periodically be looking at the watch as though his time was limited and he was trying to do what he needs to do before his time is up. Then there is the time in the movie where Ofelia's second task is timed and she must finish what needs to be done before the hourglass runs out of time.

 

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This movie kept me entertain throughout the whole movie, the only part is that is wish I knew Spanish to not have to have subtitles and not have to read the movie and pay more attention to what was going on all around the screen. This movie was very good 9/10

Vertigo

Tim Roche
Vertigo

Theme

Vertigo is a movie where the theme focuses on the character, John Ferguson, who in the beginning finds out that he has developed vertigo. The movie draws on that you at points have more knowledge on what happened that the character. You follow John as he changes from a happy guy playing around to a guy who falls in love and goes mad. I would have given this movie a 9 or 10 if it ended 20 minutes earlier but because the ending got a little weird and started to drag on I will give the movie a 7/10.

In the picture below, John is messing around with midge about having vertigo and saying he can cure it by working his way to higher heights and but we soon find out it was a bad idea.

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