MOVIE ANALYSIS
So far in the class we have been
learning that design is everywhere and people sometimes don’t realize that
everything around us have been designed. To understand the idea that everything
around us is designed, we watched the following movies Helvetica, Wall-E, and Everything is illuminated. In all those
movies design was used and incorporated well into the scenes of the movie,
designed was used well to get the main paints of the movie across. Helvetica the first movie I watched,
was simply a documentary about font that is used in everyday life, and how it
became to be the most popular font these days in business industries and etc.
One important thing about Helvetica font, that it’s not included in the
Microsoft Office Word. Wall-e as I
refer to that movie as an animation movie, is Pixar film that uses design in
order to help rely the hidden message of the movie, the idea of hidden message
come from the movie itself because there is no talking in the first 40 minutes,
the characters are construction vehicles that are like robots. Everything is illuminated is a bit
different than the ones above, the movie starts off with a story that was kind
a sad to me. The movie ends on a serious note as well, throughout the movie the
designed is used a lot to incorporate the design and the most important thing
about the movie is that people collect everything good the find. In all those
three movies above, design is used in different ways to effectively communicate
the message to the viewers. All three movie were enjoyable to watch and the
idea of design in those movies is endless.
Helvetica, like mentioned above is a 90 minute documentary that
focuses and discusses the font Helvetica itself. Helvetica movie shows how the
font affects our lives in different ways, it makes us reflect on thousands
of words we see every day. The design of the letters in this font is very
simple and many business industries use this font for example UPS. Designers of
this font were asked to share their ideas on how the came up with this font and
how did it become so popular these days. Throughout the movie people that came
up with Helvetica font were interviewed and the common idea was that Helvetica
font is very powerful and due to its widely used by companies. This font allows
the words to be powerful in many ways, this font also allows to communicate the
message effectively to an audience. Due to its simplicity this font is almost
used in every (papers, store name, electronic stores, and in regular markets).
Helvetica is a powerful font in many ways, the idea that its used by common
ground use and it popular worldwide.
Wall-e, is an animated film about a small robot. A robot who is
left on the Earth by himself to clean up the planet after people who have been
residing in space, so that they can return to their homes. People that go to
space, they hardly move and mostly they sit and discuss the issues that are
happening on the world and how to prevent it, this idea relates to Wall-e
because he is the one that has to do the actual work after people. Wall-e
spends his time on Earth by going through trash cans and sort them, Wall-e also
collects some of the objects that he finds among the piles of junk. Throughout the
movie we see that Wall-e is not the only one on earth, when another robot
arrives named EVE at the scene. EVE was sent by the humans from space, to
collect any signs of life for the captain the earth is safe place to reside in again.
Wall-e quickly becomes friends with EVE and falls in love with her. A passion
that humans live in the space have forgotten the people on earth. Wall-e gives
EVE plants, to show the signs of life and it cases EVE’s entire system to go
down. In the movie we saw that both Wall-e and EVE struggled in the space to bring
the humans back on earth, which cause for a fight to break down between the
robots living in the spaceship. Wall-e ends up winning the fight and humans are
w=able to come back to earth. The message someone can get from this movie is
that we need to stop polluting the Earth. Based on this movie we can see that technology
is affecting the world in many ways, even though Wall-e was a robot he had
feelings of love for EVE. Humans these days interact through social media and
that why we see that technology caused people to distance themselves from one
another. This also relates to design since design is becoming more and more
common as design gets more and more advanced.
Everything is illuminated, is a movie about a Jewish family, in
particular it’s about a young Jew, Jonathan who is in search of a women who
save his Grandfather during the Holocaust. He doesn’t have many evidence of
whom the person is, the only clue he has is a photo of a women named Augustine
that his Grandma gives him before she dies. Jonathan asks a young man named
Alex for help to search for the women in the picture that helped his Grandpa
during the Holocaust. Alex’s grandpa drives them to the Trachimbrod and the
find Lista, Augustine’s sister. At this point Jonathan found most of what he
was looking for but not the main person and they learn that Alex’s Grandpa was
a Nazi and executed Jews. Alex’s grandpa commits a suicide by the end of the
movie, because he couldn’t live with the guilt of pain anymore because he
caused so many Jews to die during the war and Holocaust. In this movie design
is incorporated in several different ways. All through his life Jonathan
collects the artifacts and sample of places he has been. Jonathan keeps the
objects most people would quickly forget about and throw them away. This story teaches
people a good lesson the past is relevant to who we are and what we have yet to
become or became. Design relates to this whole film and the story behind it
because we can’t seek for the improvement in design if we do not take the past
into the consideration and recognize that history is necessary to improve.
Each movie has different aspects to
them but they all seem to have same themes which is design. In all three movie,
the past is the key to creating a brighter future in term of design and trust
of society. It is important to understand that how far the value of design from
each movie came to its value today. Helvetica
a documentary about a font, begins from a different idea from other movies it
begins with the idea that it’s used in everyday life, example business industries
etc. it’s the font that is really simple and easy to recognize, designers are
focused on how this font won’t become to mainstream. Wall-e is a movie that focused on bringing the people back to earth
from space. This movie however teaches that design is powerful in different
ways, in meaning that possibilities for design are endless. The story behind
this movie is that we need to take advantage of new technologies to get caught
up with the easier way of doing things. In the last movie Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan shows the importance of little
things in life when he uses something as small as old picture of the person
that saved his grandpa.
All three movie demonstrate different
ways of how our past depends on some things in life, like new technology that
continues to improve. Possibilities that one font can change the whole view we
have on the names of things. The other being a children’s movie, and last but
not least being a story of a Jewish boy. After examining the design in all
those movies, it is easy to see the common lesson we learned in class that
everything around us is designed. Time is the most important essence and it is
important to live the present and appreciate the past when it comes to having a
bright future just like in those movies.
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