I AM NOT THIS SMART.

so, take the most ambiguous, self-righteously intelligent experimental film with the most pretentious narrative style i have ever witnessed, and an entirely unintelligible prompt, and you have the situation i am presently stuck in.

read this:

journeys from berlin is a film with many voices from the domestic and public space about rebellion and state.  comment on how the pluralism of various narrative voices in the film function to create an array of information from disparate sources.  think about how these narratives feed off of each other in terms of content and their source (personal, public, etc.)  also comment on the nature of these various voices; such as on screen vs. off-screen, naturalistic vs. theoretical and how they relate to the image.

refrain from addressing these aspects as dichotomies, instead discuss them as multiplicities co-existing to create the unique narrative structure of the film.  avoid solely comparing and contrasting individual voices, but rather focus on their interrelations.

justify noel carroll's comments about rainer's "radical juxtaposition" and "mind of a moralist."

if you suffered through the film as i did, you would think, ok... WHAT!?

putting this off until right now has definitely proved of no benefit to me, and i'm sure putting this off for another four hours won't help me either, but i'm going to anyway.

i'll be back later, cuz i'm gonna be chatty soon. ;)