Daisies

Man, that movie was incredibly bizarre. I get what the movie is trying to say, and while I can respect that, I really did not like this film. I'm a big fan of narrative, and obviously, there really wash' touch sense of narrative at all. It was random, it was all over the place, and it was at many times just plain annoying. They played with sound in such a unique way, but really overemphasized it at times to a very annoying result. Specifically the scene where they're watching the dancers, the music is so repetitive I started to get a head ache. One thing I did like about the film was the usage of colors, the vividness of them, and the symbolism behind them. I found it very intriguing. But man, other than that I did not find much worthwhile in this film. It was a pain, and it felt like it lasted 2 hours longer than it really did. I get it, but man, I really just don't get it.

Chytilova uses humor in a lot of ways to try to convey her movie. One of the most prominent uses of humor I think is in juxtaposition. She uses juxtaposition very often in close up shots just to confused and amuse the viewer. I think specifically of the example with the scissors when they're near the toes, and yet they are cutting up sausages instead. She also uses humor in juxtaposition of scenes, like when she goes from scenes of a slap in black and white to scenes in color with the person falling down from the slap. There definitely was some humor to be had in those kind of scenes. A lot of the humor though honestly just came from the women themselves. They seemed to be these sexual weird risqué women, and yet all their actions were incredibly infantile. It was quite counter to what culture might expect, which made it pretty humorous. A lot of the humor honestly relied on being counter-intuitive to what the viewer would actually expect. Finally, a lot of the humor just came from the tight editing. The cuts were placed very well to lead into visual cues from the actors, and also to cue towards different things that they were relating to in the scenes. The cake scene I found especially tight as far as editing went. We got to see some prior reactions to the cake hitting them up close, and post reactions, and everything seemed timed pretty well for humor, if not as much for accurate timing. The editing was on point though which was fun.