Cinema Paradisco

There is a mid-shot of the main character as an old man looking at a movie that I think he made. His facial expression is sad because he misses the girl that he loves. There is also a close-up of the younger him kissing the girl he loves as a projection on a wall. When the older him is watching the movie of his love he is in a dark low-key lighting room. The only light that is visible is the one coming from the project of his love and he is on his own. I think that the main character has broken up inside ever since the girl he loved went away. I think his love for film got destroyed when she went away and he was only able to concentrate on that one film he made of her because it makes him feel closer to her. She is the light out of his darkness.

The music is quite romantic because it’s classical and it has violins in it witch is the type of music that is stereotypically romantic, which sets the mood. At this point the music resembled happy first love. When the lighting and thunder strikes the music becomes more dramatic, louder and passionate. It is only after the music changes that we see the older versions of the two main characters. This suggests that as well as a first love the characters also experience there first break-up. The fact that the romantic music become more passionate instead of dying hints at the fact that the couple never actually get over there first love and continue to search for each other.

There’s a shot reverse shot of the couple kissing and then lighting then back to the couple kissing in the rain. Rain in this instance could symbolise love and kissing in the rain is a scene used in many movies in order for a kiss to be more romantic. We can tell due to the couples intimate kisses that they are deeply in love with each other.

The trailer allows us to see the couple grow from a young age and slowly start to fall in love with each other only to be driven apart. We can tell it’s the couples first love because it’s the same couple that the camera allow us to see and we don’t see any other lover with that couple. This is in complete contrast to the Spanish film because it is clear that both of the brothers are in love with the girl e.g. there is a long shot of both of them dancing with her in a provocative manner. This love that was established isn’t a first love because originally in the clip we only saw the two brothers and we saw them kissing other girls. This love at the beginning wasn’t portrayed very romantically and it seemed meaningless in contrast to the love between the brothers and the girl they picked up on the way. Although it wasn’t the boy’s first girlfriend I think it was the girl’s first love, because it was the first one that actually meant something.