Gandahar

In the film “Gandahan” directed by Rene Laloux, I found this film very strange but good.  I felt the music in this film could be interpreted as either working or not.  My reasons would be that the music does not work because it seems to separate from the film.  I felt using electronic instruments just took away from the film and made the film seem cheap or a movie not respected.  I am not going to say it was not a great film but I feel that in some movies making images or using music that is to extreme can put the film under the category of psycho.  What I mean by psycho is a film that will not be love by the majority of people who love movies.  My opinions on the storyline would be it was very different and caught my attention right away, which is excellent.  The best ways to get people interested in a film or anything is to create an idea or a concept that people do not understand.  When the film started I did not understand what this planet or whom these people were.  I was also curious as to if this was a future of humans who have evolved.  From what I have found the film was supposed to take place in Korea but when I watch the film I see styles of Asian and European artwork.  The naked people are a mix of Asian and European artwork.  The style of the houses reminded me of Native Americans and aquatic environments. The houses looked like fishes.  I felt the use of color was good.  It made the film seem foreign or like a utopian community.  The people were also interesting they kind of brought the idea of race into the film with the mutation people.  It kind of betrays the English coming to the new land and discriminating against the Native Americans.  I felt the use of making the people a different color and look like humans but also not was a good technique.  It shows that the world is a mysterious planet and does not make people feel that this movie is about humans being barbarians and creating new species and ruining their home.  If you look into the film closely it shows that this is a mirror image of our world today.  In the film the people of Gandahar created the metal men and the metal men are destroying the world. Its similar to people today in how our pollution is destroying the world we know as today.  What I found in the camera angles was when he was flying they used shadows to show movement across the landscapes.  This technique is good to represent depth.  It allows people to see that the people or objects are far away from another object.  Also to show movement they made peoples hair blow which represents wind or moving forward.  I noticed in the beginning they used a lot of far shots and then zoomed in on one of the creatures after the wide shot.  This was smart because it shows the whole environment and what’s living in it.  After seeing the environment and its inhabitants, it then zooms in to show what the creatures look like and what they are really doing.  In my opinions I felt the film was executed pretty well but could be tweaked more.  I feel the music and theme song playing with electronic piano and horns are not good.  I feel the music does not fit what is going on and I feel that music belongs in a Halloween movie.  The music just took away from the film and took the beauty of the artwork and its landscapes for me.