Introduction
The film Words has a specific form and content, explicit and implicit messages, and an innovative genre. These are seen from the particular scenes, their arrangement, sounds, and the visual image. There are a unique film language and film composition form, which makes the film meaningful and worth analyzing.
Main body
The film’s content consists of events and actions taken from different peoples’ lives or images of various processes. The form of the film composes the film out of many short scenes, and it reinforces the film’s content. This form of the film helps to connect seemingly unrelated fragments with different people or objects. The idea of the cinematic language is that the presented form of the film creates a complete meaningful picture from numerous chaotic scenes.
Moreover, many scenes in the film use parallel editing. For example, a scene where a guy blows into the pipe goes into a scene where a man blows out the candles. Two different characters are shot from a similar angle. This scene juxtaposes two events that have different contexts by using parallel editing. In some cases, the sound from the previous scene supports the visual image of the next. For example, in one fragment, a man says, “you are breaking up, I cannot hear you,” and in the following fragment, a couple faces difficulties in relationships. Probably they are having a breakup because they cannot hear each other’s problems. In another scene, we can see an old woman on TV saying, “I am falling,” and in the next scene, there is a waterfall. Thus, parallel editing helps to convey the primary meaning of the film.
The explicit meaning of the film is that some words have different meanings, and their meaning depends on the context. The explicit meaning could be seen through the usage of same-sounding words acquiring different meanings in the scenes. The audience can understand that the word ‘play’ would have a different meaning in the scene with the theatre play and two little girls playing. The implicit meaning of the film is related to a more serious topic that refers to the living matter problems. The implicit meaning is that people may have problems that sound similar, but the depth and significance are approached differently by each person. Society could claim that all people have the same problems, but the truth is that each person holds the problem differently. Each has his interpretation and assessment of what is happening. The example of the man who had a breakup during a phone call and the couple who broke up with each other is applicable here as well. Another example is the scenes where a swimmer intentionally falls into the water and the next scene where a man accidentally falls down the stairs. I think this reflects the hidden meaning of the film.
I think this film has more than one genre. I would say that a film could be both a drama and a comedy, or a drama and a comedy at the same time. I think that this film may be a drama, as some of the scenes are pretty dramatic since they might reflect serious life problems. For example, the scene where a formally dressed person falls down a staircase can symbolize work and career problems. The scene where the paper bill flies away could represent financial hardship. On the other hand, occasionally, the film has a tone of comedy. Someone may find a play on words funny; someone may laugh from a stage where jeans are torn on a person. This fusion of different moods in the scenes present in the film makes the film genre unique and innovative since I have never seen such an approach before.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the film contains many aspects, such as genre, main idea, and content and form, which might be analyzed and interpreted. This film has specific traits due to the peculiarities of the included scenes. Such specific characteristics contribute to the delivery of the film’s meaning.