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Barthetic Techniques In Bartholomew's Song '

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Bartholomew's song is a short film about a man, Barth 467, who lives in a strict society with repetition. He lives in some sort of testing facility. In barths live everyday follows the same sequence and thats al he knows to do. He acts like a programmed robot limited to act freely. The film start off with him waking up in a small and plain/simplest room, walking in line, following assembly instructions from a female disembodied voice. At the end of the day, walk back to the room. In the first 50 seconds of the film we see that they life is manipulated and controlled and we senses the bored environment he is trapped in. Although they do the same everyday, they need to hear the instructions every single day. One task we see barth to perform is when one object is …show more content…

As they all go back from the cube assembling to their room, barth 467 sees a box in the floor. He take it with him to his room. This was the first action that was not programmed. He discover the box plays a song. From this point, we see how barth rushes to his room at the end of the day to play the song. We sees how the music starts to break the repetitive way of thinking and he even start assembling cubes without the need of being instructed to do it. One day after following the procedure for a defect cube, barth discover the room where the voice comes from. In this room there is a woman giving the instructions. Barth comes to the conclusion that by stopping her from giving the commands, he would be free. He never say it, but it gives us that feeling. Next day, he takes the knife and stabs her in the back and wipe the knifes off like he has been trained to. The music and the knife are used as the motif, showing that we can be free and independent. He then singed the song in the microphone for other to hear. aFterwards, he is announced defective. He is taken away and replaced by 468. As the film ends we see barth 584 looking like if the music has changed

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