Bodies in high school space...
We have hit on an interesting point, and I was wondering if it would come up. Many of the sequences in "HS" fragment space; some go so far as to fragment people, parts of people, etc. We get mouths, hands on hips, pointing fingers, and in the gym sequence we get miscellaneous body parts...But they are bodies moving in a conducted rhythm. The song underneath is a pop version of "Simon says."BTW...later in the film, we get a bizarre image of a boys gym class (they were all gender-segregated then). We see two teams...shirts and skins..trying to move an enormous ball (looks vaguely like a medicine ball, but huge) against each other. Is it Earth? Is it progress and discipline? Is it Sisyphus rolling a rock up the hill?
What else would you make of the fragmented bodies in "High School"?
posted by Ralph @ 10:24 PM
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Jared has a good idea, but I don't think it holds completely. We get fragments of everyone, including teachers.
We might want to asd how the shooting style positions us (as viewers) among these various groups (teachers, students, etc.).
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