Daisies by Danielle Eberhard

Title/Year:  Sedmikrásky (English Title: Daisies) (1966)
Director/Birth Country/Year Born:  Vera Chytilova/Czechoslovakia/1929
Budget:  Unable to Find
Gross:  Unable to Find
Synopsis:  A film about two girls trying to discover who they are and explore the world around them.
Narrative and Visual Keywords:  Stylistic, Psychedelic, New Wave
Characterization/ Dialogue:  Questionable, Curiosity, Playful, Witty
Camera/lighting/editing technique:  Jump Cuts, Edit with Color, Play on Sound Design 
Political/ Social Commentary:  Communist, Women's Roles in Society
Historical Relevance/ Recognition:  Czech New Wave Film
Notable Collaboration:  N/A
Random fact:  This film was banned and because of it, Chytilová was forbidden to work in homeland until 1975.
(References from IMDB)

1. What are the characters’ attitudes toward work/ What is their work ethic like?
The main females in this film (Marie one and Marie two) are very much against work.  They wander around the world playing and goofing off like children.  They never have real jobs and they think that having a job is just pointless. 

2. Were you able to distinguish the use of symbols/ What story elements seemed surreal?
The entire film was highly surreal and stylistic.  There were times I was unsure if we were in a dream or a fantasy the girls brought us into.  It very much from the POV of the Marie's in the sense that everything was whimsical and bright up until the very end.  The use of color tints and filters over frames in the editing added to the surrealism of it all.

3. Does the main character seem in control of his/her own destiny? In relation to the individualist vs. the communist perspective? Does the character have a viewpoint concerning the divine or "God"?
I feel that both Marie's want to have control of their own destiny but don't have it yet.  When they realize the world is bad and go about trying to fight through the current they end up discovering there are things you can't run away from.  In this case it was the obligations of society and politics.  They are both dreamers.  They feel they are free but they really aren't and that's the message I got from this film.