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sometimes people really piss me off…. so then I watch a movie

• 30 October 2009

I watched a really interesting film called Accident this week. It was filmed in 1967 and directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter and based on a book by Nicholas Mosley. It’s all about this man named Stephen who is professor at Oxford and what his life is like.  So here’s a short description of his life, he is married with two kids and has a really nice rich house. He loves his wife but he doesn’t want to be with her romantically. He has two students who are named Anna and William who are together and they are both aristocracy as well.  Stephen has dinner parties and he goes to peoples houses, and people sleep with each other, and he plays with his kids and he goes to work.

It’s really interesting and it might not be something you like, but not too much really happens in the film. The only thing that really happens is there is a car accident in the end/beginning of the film.That’s probably why it was called Accident, because there was nothing else it really could be called, because nothing else really happens in the film haha.

But that’s not the point. The point is that the film, like a lot of other films directed by French guys in the 60s, tries to take you inside somebody’s head, inside their mind in a way that only novels have been able to do before then, and maybe music as well.  (well that’s what some French guy said in the director’s cut anyways haha.)

Let me give you an example: There’s one scene where Professor Stephen goes on a ride down the canal in Oxford on a boat with his two students Anna and William. During the boat ride, they basically don’t talk, they just enjoy the sun and look around. You can tell what Stephen is thinking about because the camera looks up at the sunny treetops, and then it cuts to his face looking happy. Then, he looks at Anna’s stomach cause she is wearing a small dress, and then it cuts to his face looking towards her a little sad. So, you can get a little bit more close to what he is thinking and feeling just from the film, even though not much technically happens. Two other films that try to get inside the characters’ heads with French directors from the 60s are Belle du Jour and Hiroshima Mon Amour.

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