Selina

student at KPU studying english.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, as a member of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg people, discusses through an Indigenous perspective her connection to climate change in her song “Break Up” (as part of her new 2021 album “Theory Of Ice”). Listen to the song below. https://t.co/3EQAR4ZG1Q

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@ENGL4401 Logos is used effectively in the 2015 documentary This Changes Everything through comparison of two different stories, two different perspectives. The first story and perspective is the narrative that man controls nature, instead of nature controlling man.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, an activist/scholar from the Nishnaabeg nation states that "we should be thinking of climate change as part of a much longer series of ecological catastrophes caused by colonialism and accumulation-based society”. https://t.co/tnDJK4v4iv

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At the end of the film, young Fiona looks at the viewer for the last time and then turns away. The screen again fades into whiteness and then ends. The film closes with K.D. Lang’s cover of Neil Young’s song “Helpless”. https://t.co/6vRCDQMUOZ

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@ENGL4401 In the 2006 film Away From Her, representations of forgetting and disappearing through the passage of time are illustrated through using shallow focus, the opposition of white and black, and the transition of the day fading into the night.

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The color white in the film symbolizes isolation, emptiness, oblivion, but also acceptance, relief and peace. Away From Her fades into a white, blank screen at the beginning and the end of the film, both after the flashback of a young Fiona looking at the viewer.

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@ENGL4401 Almodóvar discusses in this article connecting two opposing states of being in his film, stating that on the train journey, “Julieta comes into contact with the two most important poles of our existence: death and life”. https://t.co/3WqW6X7xkU

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@ENGL4401 Compared to the still sad but more hopeful Hollywood ending of Almodovar’s film, Munro’s short stories have a harsh realism and a less resolved and more ambivalent ending.

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@ENGL4401 This yin and yang could also be connected to Almodóvar’s symbolic use of the contrasting colors of red and blue.

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Pedro Almodovar discusses differences between his adaption and Munro’s short stories, and discusses the significance of what paintings he uses in his film and why. https://t.co/2tJr5AHMcy

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Julieta waits for her partner, yet he will never come home. In this frame, both the red robe Julieta wears and the blue terror of the ocean represent death.