In the tutorial, we watched the film Rubber. The film is centered around the concept of no reasoning and goes against the codes and conventions for generic movies. The film begins with a police man telling an audience in the vast desert that the movie is not going to be conventional or make sense. He pours a full cup of water on the ground before he walks away for no apparent reason to put an emphasis on the ;no point' concept. The film is about an unanimous object - a tyre - blowing up objects, animals and people with it's unexplained 'mind' powers.
The general theme and feeling the audience is supposed to have towards the tyre begins as curiosity. Through the theme music and sometimes violent visuals, the audience then comes to the realization that the tyre is a 'villain'. When the background music changes and the lyrics say "I just don't want to be lonely" (or words to that effect), the audience begins to feel sorry for the tyre. And although the tyre has killed a human and a rabbit, the audience accepts it because the unanimous object is clearly acting out of loneliness.
Click here for the official trailer of Rubber
As we also learned in the lecture; the shot sizes and shot angles play a vital point in how the audience perceive the characters. A prime example of this in motion is the shots of the audience in the film watching the tyre through binoculars. In the audience, some characters were annoying and thus had a lower status. They were filmed with high angle shots, as apposed to the higher status characters filmed with low angle shots.
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