Title/Year: Sedmikrasky (Daisies) 1966
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Vera Chytilvoa/Czechoslovakia (Now Czech Republic)/1929
Budget: Unknown
Gross: Unknown
Synopsis: Two teenage girls causing mischief and getting men to pay for everything for them.
Narrative and Visual Keywords: Teenagers, mischief, food, no responsibility, growing up
Characterization/ Dialogue: The characters were very happy-go lucky. The two Maries didn't care at all about the world around them. The dialogue had nothing to do with anything around them. When there were other people, they completely ignored them and just talked to each other.
Camera/lighting/editing technique: In almost every shot, both the Maries are present. The lighting in the film is very much everywhere. They use filters whenever they want to. There is really no reason to them. They are just thrown on to see what happens. The editing is used to show juxtapositions to what they are doing. Such as the opening, they have working gears going which resembles moving forward and happiness along with images of destruction. In several scenes they go from the two girls doing something to a shot of serenity showing calmness within the madness.
Political/ Social Commentary: The movie took a very feminist approach during a time when women's rights were on everyone's minds.
Historical Relevance/ Recognition: The film is recognized as one of the most influential films to modern surrealist cinema.
Notable Collaboration: Jaroslav Kucera was the cinematographer on all her films and he was also Vera's husband.
Random fact: This isn't so much a random fact as it is a fact. This movie was confusing as shit. I had no idea what was going on the entire time. It was all over the place.
1. What are the characters’ attitudes toward work/ What is their work ethic like? The characters' attitudes toward work was that they just didn't care at all. They were just going through life doing whatever they please. Their work ethic was non- existant up until the very end when they decided they wanted to change and clean up their mess.
2. Were you able to distinguish the use of symbols/ What story elements seemed surreal? The use of symbols, to me, were very present throughout the film. The use of colors and certain objects and items at certain times gave on a very specific meaning in that time. The whole story seemed surreal. The editing used throughout made the entire world they lived in a fake world.
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"? The main characters seem in complete control of their own destiny. They do whatever they please. They don't have anyone that tells them what they are ding is bad or good. There was no mention of a divine or God throughout the entire film. They were just going along like there was nothing happening around them whatsoever.
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