{"id":549,"date":"2009-03-31T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446398850538831139.post-885846724835520289"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:42:00","slug":"summary-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/03\/31\/summary-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having taken a film course before, I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.  I don&#8217;t know much about film theory nor do I have a technical background.  That being said, I usually always watch films for entertainment.   I think watching them in a classroom context definitely forced me to think deeper about the films.  I began to recognize that even if I didn&#8217;t like a film I should try to understand its message or meaning.  This was not always easy, however, the Thursday discussions greatly helped. I also found that many of the articles tended to express what I was trying to say (although much more concisely and eloquently), or for the most part the had the tendency to shed light on some aspects of the film I had not considered.<br \/>\nIt was also interesting to learn how film can be used to look at a representation of a place, idea, etc. from different perspectives.<br \/>\nI personally enjoyed a number of the films, (Los Olvidads, El callej\u00f3n de los milagros, Touch of Evil, The Wild Bunch, Thee amigos, and Traffic).  I felt let down by Batalla en el cielo and Que Viva Mexico, however I think that&#8217;s because of my lack of understanding of the films, and I wasn&#8217;t able to gain much from the articles and discussions.  I think they&#8217;re worth rewatching, though, because I&#8217;m sure they have something good to say.<br \/>\nI still have to put some thought into the themes and discussions we had in the class&#8230; I&#8217;m having trouble picking two movies for the paper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res1.blogblog.com\/tracker\/446398850538831139-885846724835520289?l=maxstmaurice.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having taken a film course before, I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.  I don&#8217;t know much about film theory nor do I have a technical background.  That being said, I usually always watch films for entertainment.   I think watching them in a classroom con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}