This sudden confrontation of the two completely different scenes causes the audience a moment of bewilderment as they try to reconcile the two completely different existences into one world. .
As both Cortazar and Antonioni use unconventional methods, the point of view of the story is often in question. Cortazar constantly switches between the first and third person throughout his narrative, compelling the reader to wonder whom the speaker is. He starts out writing that "Roberto Michel left number 11, rue Monsieur-le-Prince [on] Sunday November 7" to take photographs of the city (Cortazar 116), but later in the same paragraph he writes "I figured by eleven the light would be good" for pictures (Cortazar117). This bewildering change between first and third person continues throughout the tale, and it makes the reader uncertain about what is going on. It leads the reader to think that there are actually two people involved, or that Michel has a dual personality. Antonioni uses the camera to create angles that makes one unsure whose point of view one is seeing. In one scene, Thomas is out in the park looking for something to photograph. As he strolls into the park, he pauses to look around at the scenery. The camera view changes from a close-up of Thomas" face to what the viewer believes is a pan shot of what Thomas is seeing. Suddenly the camera stops and focuses on a shrub in front of the tennis court, and then Thomas walks into the shot from the direction opposite to the one the camera was panning in. Thomas" appearance startles the watcher, and makes him wonder whose point of view he was seeing just a moment ago.
In both the short story and film, the main character views what happens in a different way than it initially appears. Roberto Michel initially believes the encounter between the woman and the boy in the park is a case of a young boy with a crush on an older woman, that "the boy had come onto the tip of the island, seen the woman and thought her marvelous" (Cortazar 121).
The Question of Reincarnation and "A Yellow Flower" There are always going to be people who question what happens to a person upon their death. In his story "A Yellow Flower" Julio Cortazar approaches this subject from a unique point of view. In this story, a man finds himself reinc...
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The following paper is on the chapter of light reflection and refraction. The law of refraction states that when a light ray strikes a reflecting surface, the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence. The angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are measured from a normal...
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