I’ve decide to choose the film ”ORLANDO” for my further discussion. After watching the film "Orlando", it took some time to drag my mind back from the space and time. The whole movie become a story which is not only about Orlando this person herself, but the spirit of her hundreds years life time, from 1600 to the present. ...
In ORLANDO, that’s takes only ninety-two minutes to explode myths about gender and identity and transform the title character from an 17th century nobleman travels four hundred years to a Nineties single mother revving her bike through London. ... Orlando experiences love, sex, betrayal, poetry, politics, birth and death from both sides of the gender coin in several eras, the film becomes an allegory of the sexless, timeless mind, of spirits trapped within the social constructs called masculinity and femininity. ... Another thing that ignored is the mechanism by which Orlando change sex.
As conceived and presented by British director Sally Potter, ORLANDO is a charmingly outrageous story, based on Virginia Woolfs 1928 novel (which has been interpreted as Woolf’s love letter to the androgynous, aristocratic novelist Vita Sackville-West) , herself a writer who tried to break free of sex and class restraints. ...
As the film begins, Orlando sits under a tree on his family estate. ...
Orlando, played by actress Tilda Swinton, who is definitely a woman and not particularly androgynous, her obvious femininity is explained in their fashions and vanities outdid their women. ...
Orlando’s property and the power it implies—the British colonialism in miniature—drive the film, which Potter lays out in a series of vignettes.
After the Queen dies, in 1610,Orlando romances a young Cossank names Sasha, the daughter of the Muscovite ambassador, played by Charlotte Valandrey, for whom he claims he’d “hunt wolves instead of rabbits, drink vodka instead of whisky” It’s the Great Frost, when grand banquets were held on the frozen Thames. ...
Next the Lord Orlando has found his new interest in poerty in 1650,entering into philosophical debates with the Michael Palin-exque Mr. Greene, ”Society is full of dangerous individuals—wits and poets”, Orlando is warned, but he still fancies himself as a writer. ... Orlando observes,” Same person, no different at all, just a different sex”, Potter is doing more than tweaking the gerder games we play. ... As a woman, Orlando finds it’s not just the corseted gowns and sexist comments from the literary lions of the day that constrict her.
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