From the outset, subjective camera techniques inscribe the viewer as complicitious company with a shared horizon of understanding so that eventually the audience has become so complicitous that words are superfluous - Orlando's knowing gaze in the audience's direction suffices to punctuate key moments of the diegesis with shared irony. Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. At last, at last, to be free of the past. ... It is ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It lasts for 60 seconds. ... The sun is setting on the horizon, casting a warm glow across the beautiful scenery. ... The car drives through many different areas, at last reaching the city. ... The last line is another reference to head and heart, "Vorsprung durch Technic. ... In one of the last scenes, he is left in the car and the camera pans to him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

New German Cinema "Although some maintain that the end of New German Cinema did not occur until after the cold war, many of the filmmakers associated with the movement felt, after Das Boot, that it was finally all right to make it in Hollywood--a sentiment that was to be the death knell of...

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• Grade Level: High School