I tried the search for this. But not seeing any relevant questions about it maybe I'm the only one wondering about this.
What's up the cage in between shots of the sex scenes. I've watched this film a few times over the years and STILL do not get this part at all.
Can someone please enlighten me?
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It was "symbolic". The experience was supposed to be liberating for all concerned. I feel it was a bit or artsiness the movie could've done without
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Thanks....that makes sense
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A matter of taste, I guess. I liked that extra symbolic layer a lot.
Just after the sex scene there is a shot of some bars in the stairway or something, same meaning as the birdcage I presume, only here it kind of locks up the two together.
I also noticed that there was a lot of camerashots looking in through doors and especially windows with venetian blinds.
All this also relates to the prison scenes.
The movie seems to tell a story, about how all the major characters are trying to break free from all the prejudices and other stuff, that holds them captivated.
It's all captured pretty good in the line, when Hank opens up (for the first time in his life?) to Leticia in the car: "When You feel like you can't breathe - and You can't get out from inside yourself".
>"When You feel like you can't breathe - and You can't get out from inside yourself".
That really reminded me of Lawrence's moments in the holding cell, where he had difficulty breathing.
The birdcage was a bit out of place. (Not a pigeon, though -- the bird was smaller than the woman's hand). I guess there really was a birdcage in the room, with no bird. The bird was dead and gone. Kind of like a dead soul.
Like much of the film, it's overdone.
I watched it again a year and a half ago. It was the first I'd seen the film since watching it in theaters in 2002. It's a good film, but I watched it and literally kept thinking that Forster had gone to film school. Every 5 minutes the film starts all over, with drawn out music and a new, long-winded master shot. He gets in the way of the film.
I want to know what the view from the mirror was about? (When they were on the couch and whatnot.)
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