... chaos. The audience feels the chaotic and senseless nature of the action. After Mercutio is killed, the camera zooms towards Romeo as seeks Tybalt for revenge, making it seem as if he were driving towards us. The close-up shot shows his face contort with gargoyle-like hatred. The ... intense action. There are short, quick flashes alternating between Romeo and Tybalt and slow motion is used as the car overturns, all this highlights the speed and destruction of the scene. Luhrmann presents social decay as the main catalyst of the tragedy, deliberately exaggerating the violence ... crumbl...

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... of the photo one can notice that there is no dominating presence in the photo. Caroline, Lester and Jane are all equal hight and are huddled together, symbolising there is no competition for the figure of power. The next Photo Tells quite a different tale, it is the photo shown at the beginning ... of the Burnham family, and are an integral part of the films symbolism message. It is almost inherent that one associates light with all things good, and darkness with all things bad, almost a sixth sense if you wish. But however it is that this sense of the two is developed it is ... The Fi...

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... character, and their personal views and relations with Satine ultimately alter the image she creates of herself. Harold Zidler, Christian, and the Duke all affect Satine and her development as a character, and thus the way she is represented to the audience. As exemplified in Jackie Stacey's article "How Do I Look?-, Satine's character has great influence over the female spectator. Women view themselves ... show every night. The female spectator may recognize many aspects of Satine's character that mirror sex symbols of the 20th century. She exemplifies the sexual prowess of Madonna, th...

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... ). Lacan tells us that the oedipal stage occurs closely with the time words begin to be used as symbols to represent things, the linguistic/symbolic order. Collings argues that Victor never fully differentiated from his mother during the mirror/imaginary order of life and therefore was not able to move through the oedipal stage and fully develop himself in the linguistic/ symbolic order. Unable ... to fully function as a member of society, Victor struggles with primitive desires for his mother, and he ... nights in vaults and charnel-houses" (56). He is isolated continually, very simila...

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