This week’s film Killer of Sheep is certainly different in
the way it’s presented as a film which made it somewhat difficult for me to
follow. Immediately as the film began we see a father scolding his older son
for not defending his younger brother from a fight that he supposedly started. This
scene ended with the boy getting slapped by his mother, it’s after that we don’t
see any references back to this situation ever again nor are we introduced to any main characters. Its only after this we are then introduced to
our main character Stan where we are informed that he is having issues sleeping
at night; this is brought back up again in the film twice by his wife however
for the audience we are never informed nor clued into what could be directly
linked to his insomnia.
Not really clued into the purpose or reason of Stan spreading what appears to be Rosin Paper.
I can only imagine my difficulty in following this
movie originally was I’m used to structure of films where at some point within the movie
it’ll inform all of the audience for most if not all central plot points within the
movie. It was only during the first 15 minutes of the movie I had to change my
viewpoint and mindset to stop treating this as a structured narrative but more along the
lines of a documentary.
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