What are the aims and intentions of the director of the film and how have these been achieved?
Bart Layton is the director of the documentary, The Imposter, a story of a 23-year-old man, Frederic Bourdin, who pretends to be a missing child, Nicholas Barclay, who at the time would have been 15. Bart Layton intends to illustrate the amazing story of Frederic Bourdin. He achieves this by manipulating the audience and challenging our perception of truth. Bourdin is the first person in the thriller/documentary hybrid to tell his story. This is very strategic by Layton as it manipulates the audience, as the first time a story is told it becomes the dominant narrative. Bourdin establishes the baseline of truth. Layton manipulates the audience by putting in Frederic saying that all he “wanted is to be wanted”. This makes the viewers feel sorry for him and almost accept his horrible impersonation. At the end of the film Frederic states “fuck the rest” suggesting that he only cares about himself. This betrays the audience and makes us angry resulting in a shift to understanding the reaction of the family.
How does the beginning of the film play an important part in the text as a whole?
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The camera then pans upwards towards a bird’s eye view shot of the grave. The viewers attentively sit on the edge of their seats waiting in anticipation. When the hole is exposed and it is empty there is great disappointment. Layton manipulates the audience as we began to believe Frederic but when Nicholas is not found we turn against him. The camera cuts to an interview with Bourdin as he says his last words. He ends saying “I care about myself”. This shows how confusing the mystery is and how manipulative he can be. We don’t know what is truth and what are lies, but it is made certain that we cannot believe Bourdin and that the mystery of Nicholas Barclay
In the exposition, O 'Connor immediately presents the characterization of the overbearing Grandmother. This introduces the conflict that the Grandmother is set on getting her way above the family’s wishes. The reader needs to understand this characterization because it helps understand why the ending is so significant when she offers grace to the misfit and redeems herself. The author, O 'Connor, develops her plot chronologically, immediately stating the initial conflict of The Grandmothers manipulative tendency. The reader discovers there is an escaped criminal on the loose, the Grandmother uses this in her favor, she says, “Here this fellow calls himself the misfit is loose from the federal pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he’d do to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a loose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did,” (O 'Connor 470). Her manipulation disconnects her from the reader in order to convey the theme when she changes in the end. If she started as a good person and was a likable character in the story, O 'Connor would not be able to get her purpose across that bad people can redeem themselves.
What are the dramatic advantages of beginning the play with a dialogue of this sort?
Act 1 scene 7 is very important in the whole of the play because the
The opening scene is significant because it gives the setting of the story. It is also important because it introduces the magical style of the story through over exaggerated details. Lastly, the significance of the opening scene also includes the introduction of the main character and what kind of family into which he was born.
Another effective technique demonstrated by Niccol is the first person narration by the central character, Vincent. This is important for the development in the movie, as Vincent is the protagonist we are encouraged to empathise with. Therefore, the use of bias narration and perspective is effective in supporting the ideas presented in the film.
Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.
The film begins with a rant between the characters on stage with little relation to the topic of the film. It does provide a better understanding to the viewer that these characters are going to disagree on the topic that follows. This diatribe between characters also reveals their political stance, which is very important when understanding the upcoming criticism. After the opening rant is completed the audience should be informed that on stage there is a liberalist, conservative, moderator, and a news anchor, Will McAvoy.
The story of Capturing the Friedman and The Imposter are unique and interesting; however, The Imposter delivers a more meaningful message and imposes stronger emotional impacts on the audience. The movie’s title, The Imposter, does a great job to capture the audience’s impression and curiosity, for they are craving to know who is the real imposter. Opposed to Capturing the Friedman, which has no one narratives the story, The Imposter uses Frederic Bourdin as the core and lead the audience through the story. The director visualized Bourdin’s story with recreation along with actors make it feels like people are getting inside Bourdin’s head, understand his point of view, and excuse for his action. Single shot, a filming-technique that shows only one person in the frame, was used during the interview of Bourdin
The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.
Scorsese shows the audience that betrayal and character reversal brings out the characters
The story starts off with Thomas recalling the night of the accident, this is a good opener it pulls the reader in and peaks their curiosity. It hits the pathos appeal hard because she is pulling us in, to find out what happened to her husband and how it affected her. As we read
Jeffers also discusses the political tumult in his home of Belfast. The film shows many striking shots of Jeffers creating both his children's books as well as his many paintings. While retrospective in many aspects, the film also does a beautiful job of incorporating Jeffers' present and future life, incorporating his relationship with his son and the effect that has on much of his work.
At the beginning of the movie we are shown an opening sequence introducing the main characters in the movie. We are briefly introduced to each character’s situation and the goals they are trying to achieve but we soon
This scene is important as it comes midway into the play, marking a turning point, that drives the action towards the tragic end. The scene opens with all three characters relaxed and in a playful mood, but there is an underlying tension that builds throughout the scene with an uneasy sense of insecurity, which is felt by the Duchess as she is aware that her brother has returned to court. The tension continues to increase, with the use of dramatic irony, where the audience is aware of information that the actors on stage do not have. The atmosphere soon shifts from a light hearted one to one of fear. The Duchess, Antonio
The opening scene introduces us to the person we later learn is John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson, something that does not play out until much later in the film relates to the demonstration of the debilitating extent of Johns inability to act in the face of heights, once with the police officer and then with his love whom he cant stop because of his fear. The opening scene builds on the credits by creating the expectation of suspense and thrill and mystery shrouding the true identity and relation of characters and setting up the disposableness of characters in the film, this adds to the complexity of Madeline’s disease as the audience cant tell whether, or more when, she will die.