Sonnet #100
- Episode aired Jun 23, 2014
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S1.70: Sonnet #100: Nice theatrical delivery which adds to the clarity of the sonnet
This film is number 70 in the series of 154 and was released some two months after the Sonnet Project had originally planned to have all of them done and dusted, whereas of course the reality is that this is not even the halfway mark. The reason given for this is that the original idea perhaps assumed that they would all be to-camera delivery of the words with the landmark or location in the background of the shot, but that quickly the series became short films with invention, graphics, performances, all manner of things that are well worth having the project run much longer than foreseen. Sonnet 100 is an example of that.
We join an author forlornly picking up his novel off a wooden table on sale in the street; we get that he perhaps has not repeated this book's success and join him at his table, failing to be inspired – his muse gone. This part of the film is played out on a stage with a graphic of the location behind him; okay not totally in line with what the Project was getting at perhaps, but it works. The sonnet is about the loss of muse and the rediscovery of it. It isn't totally clear what the writer's muse is, although it is suggested that books themselves are the passion and inspiration for him; however what is important is that the film fits with the sonnet well, and it does.
It is perhaps a bit heavy in the way it does it, but it is hard to dislike the piece for that when it uses falling balls of paper to convey the character's state of mind. The stage setting feels a bit weird with the films normally happening in the real world (as this one does at start and end) but it makes the performance feel more at home because it is playing it "bigger" in this section than the actor does when he is on the street – so it is stagey, but in a way that works. Ultimately I'm not sure I totally liked it for its approach, but it is clear and creates a nice contained narrative for the actor to perform in a manner which aids clarity of the words.
We join an author forlornly picking up his novel off a wooden table on sale in the street; we get that he perhaps has not repeated this book's success and join him at his table, failing to be inspired – his muse gone. This part of the film is played out on a stage with a graphic of the location behind him; okay not totally in line with what the Project was getting at perhaps, but it works. The sonnet is about the loss of muse and the rediscovery of it. It isn't totally clear what the writer's muse is, although it is suggested that books themselves are the passion and inspiration for him; however what is important is that the film fits with the sonnet well, and it does.
It is perhaps a bit heavy in the way it does it, but it is hard to dislike the piece for that when it uses falling balls of paper to convey the character's state of mind. The stage setting feels a bit weird with the films normally happening in the real world (as this one does at start and end) but it makes the performance feel more at home because it is playing it "bigger" in this section than the actor does when he is on the street – so it is stagey, but in a way that works. Ultimately I'm not sure I totally liked it for its approach, but it is clear and creates a nice contained narrative for the actor to perform in a manner which aids clarity of the words.
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