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Introduction

One of my favoruite things about offering these videos to the film community is that there seems to be an real appetite for discussion of great films. With this in mind I want to bring a film to the table that hasn’t gotten the attetion its deserves and my two aims this this video are to raise some awareness of the quality and unqiueness of this film and secondly explore the structural form, themes and narrative of Kubricks Forgotten Mastepeice.

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Part 1 – The under appreciation of Barry Lyndon.

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Now, is the films lack of awarness due to a drop in quailty from Kubrick as even the best directors have flops in their body...
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Shame analysis Part 2

Steve McQueen’s Shame is a poetic and detailed character study that is full of aesthetic pleasure but also a meaningful use of form.

Iv already created a short analysis on the opening shot of this film describing the meaning and visual imformation.

This analysis will focus on a scene that, on surface level doesn’t stand out as the most memorable of the film, but I feel is packed with inner conflict and acts as a major turning point in Brandons story.

To put this scene in context and to fully appreciate the weight this scene holds, lets first look at the information that has been shared with the audience so far.

The film does a great job of setting up the pattern of a cycle in Brandons life.

As a sex addict, he is stuck in the cycle of lonleiness, lust, lone observation and sexual gratification. We see this cycle repeated many times through the first 25 minutes of the film, with different women and circumstances but always the same habitual patterns. The opening of the film even starts with Brandon circling his aparatment to physically ill...
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Back to the Fututre – The Econemy of Stortelling

Welcome to MUST SEE FILMS, My names Darren and this channel is helping you see films differently.

I recently revisited a childhood favourite of mine, ‘Back to the Future’ and it still holds up as a fun filled adventure, a sci fi masterpiece and at the same time an initimate family drama.

One of the most overloooked achievements of this film is the films opening shot. It manages to convey an incredible amount of information to the audience in a very short time, not to mention the technical execution of the shot its self.

As the film opens we hear the ticking of clocks, tying into the the theme of the overall narrative.

The most impressive...
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