Tuesday, October 28, 2008

"Last Clean Shirt"

Finding common denominators in this movie was challenging, and finding meaning to the song "The last clean Shirt" was even more challenging. The movie played three times each time with different focus points. The first time was just the ride, followed with the text of the female, and finally with the male thoughts. The song played on cue each and every time without any variation. The lyrics to the song were fast but the central theme to the last clean shirt is the shirt one wears when passing to the next world. The visual of the movie reflected everyness with typical traffic inside an urban area. The camera angle stead fixed in the back scene and did which toward the end of each scene. The duration of the drive was approximately ten minutes giving a sense of time and was deliberately done so. The question as to why film two people driving three times in the city while playing this song can lead to a few thoughts. The thought that I believe the songs were introduced for is to relay a message of life spent in our cars. The everydayness that takes place in the car in always overlooked and many people just go into auto pilot. The actors never really acknowledged one anther they were only releasing thoughts. One was verbal the other just thinking. The time spent wasn't meaningful to either, but was time spent driving. The time spent was meaningful to me because I had to study the time. I looked for the common denominators to attempt to find reason to the everyday that surrounded the two that were just moving about their day. The music of the last clean shirt filter in at the end of each segment. Was this by design? The end representing the end of the movie and the end of life. The time captured showed the everyday not observed by the actors, but due the movie observed by me. Maybe the author's point. I'm ultimately unsure why the last clean shirt, but I think part of the reasoning my exist in my wondering thoughts.

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