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24. PROM NIGHT
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PROM NIGHT was official selection at SXSW 2011 and Rooftop Film Festival 2011. It received a Special Jury Award for the dancing at Videofest24.
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I'm fans of your movies congratulation....
thank.s
After watching it a second time I'm still not sure about the last sequence, though. She's wearing the same 70's style dress from the beginning and it makes me wonder if it's in reference to the 'real' character of the girl. Or perhaps we're just in a time loop and this is a second (or third, fourth...) take on the same scene.
Beautifull...
tnx celia
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Once again I love this film. You have made me a fan.
How did she die? Is it related to a loss of 'innocence' (sex or rape) OR is it simply a head on car crash? Perhaps, the red juice and white night gown suggest a forced loss of virginity? (The look on her face is as if she is saying "Look at what you did to me!!") Who does she truly wish to direct her anger towards? A manipulative individual from the past or all young men? As she chased the camera person character, what was her expression? Anger or a desperate grasp for help? What would she have done to the camera person if she had caught up to him?
As the camera person retreats to safety behind the gymnasium doors... this young woman's eternal ghost is alone once again. The loop of music & memories start again (returning to the innocent dress at the start of prom night). We continue to witness the conflict between her desire to return to "innocence" (to dance for the love of dance) and her anger/sadness of losing authorship of her own sexual self.
Note, my interpretation doesn't aim to put virginity on a pedestal - rather, I relate to my own memory of 'my first time'... that combined feeling of overwhelming joy mixed with sadness that I would never be the same as I was before.
I think this is a (perhaps chronological?) look at the sexual stereotyping of women in American pop culture. The dancer starts with, what seems to me, are the coy women of an earlier era, often being seen as / unfairly turned into asexual nuns/saints, and then gets more and more aggressively sexual. Some references were pretty clear: Madonna with the lollipop and the conical bra, the Baywatch theme with the red swimsuit and the huge stuffed boobs, for example. I think Britney Spears is referenced to as well, but not completely sure. The tendency to slot women into the Eve/Mary (temptress/saint) typology is satirized.
I think the point is that this is the way young women, over the decades, have been unfairly lead to believe - that they are supposed to behave *this* way.
I don't know the significance of peeping from behind the door thing, other than the fact that it's meant to look clearly voyeuristic.
Also the fact that it's a POV shot implicates the viewer as a voyeur too.
Might I add, it takes a lot of guts to perform and deliberately put yourself into a role as vulnerable as the objectified woman (and then do it so well). Kudos to you, Celia!
Presuming the camera is a male perspective, I think there are two ideas: the guy fantasizing about what the possibilities might be based on how women have been portrayed/objectified in the media over the years, and how are women expected to act based on those same stereotypes.
I think that there's an awkward sense of pressure, expectation, and uncertainty in how to behave and respond.
I don't think the guy ever entered the room other than in his imagination.
However, I have been known to be wrong from time to time :)
I wish i had a one location history to film! Difficult to find writers that stay on the simple and amazing little things of modern life.