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What do Mal’s continued appearances in Cobb’s dreams symbolize, in your opinion? Provide examples from the film and an explanation to support your answer. I think that Mal symbolizes Cobs guilt that he has for Mal's death.  She ends up showing up in all of the dreams hat he is in to try and distract him. I believe that she does this because he blames himself for her suicide and it's a self punishment he holds on to bad venison's of Mal. This then is Cobb's self conscious telling him that he should have been more mindful of Mal. For example in the beginning of the movie she is in Saito's self conscious to distract Cobb from his mission. Also parts of the night that Mal died keeps showing up while Cobb and the others are in Fisher's self conscious. Over all, Mal is a symbol of Cobb's guilt of her death.

1. Cobb and his team specialize in manipulating someone’s thoughts or dreams to extract or plant ideas and information. Discuss the different ways you see information manipulated in the world around you. How does the control of information impact perception/reality? Information  is manipulated in the world because they way the news or social media puts out the information. Or some may see the information like the way the majority of the population sees the The control of information can help people stay calm. like the government can keep information hidden so that the country doesn't go  crazy. 

How does the use of montage illustrate the intention of directors and what is its effect on the audien ce? The director uses montage, which uses a bunch of short clips that are edited together to show a lot of information to the audience. They also use the background music to give an effect on the audience. At the end of the movie If I Stay it shows a montage of everything that she enjoyed in life through shot slowed chips. It speeds up until it goes to white and the background music is a mixture of her boyfriend singing, others talking about her living and there's sound effects that make it sound like her life is crashing down. This montage makes the view feel tension and sadness.

What is the Mediator? I believe that the mediator is the conflict between the upper class and the lower class.   Is Fritz Lang trying to influence his audience?  Yes, he is trying to show that the upper and lower classes should learn to be treated the same way. He's trying to make the audience realize that the upper class always gets what they want and the lower class is always controlled by the upper half.  Is he advocating for Capitalism? Communism?  Fascism?  Im not sure what all of those fully mean but I looked up the definitions of them and I believe its communism. The definition of communism is  a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs Here are a couple films that where influenced by metropoli s,  The Matrix ; the videos for Madonna's ...

the comments I received on my film-  first clip was good  good canting shot  strong walk-through pop in was well done  good use of tripod  good acting  the theme was good  what you feel you or your group did best- We used a lot of composition in the shots. Reflect on what your classmates said you or your group did well- I agreed that some of the shots where well done but not all of them i feel where the best it could be  Improvements- We could have actually done a chase film rather than what we did.  we could have also not have wasted so much time on useless shots. What are your strengths and how can you make them even better? I feel like if i had a chance to use the camera i could have made the shots better but i also didn’t really fully understand the whole story. In the future i want to be the main person the controls the camera. also i want to make the film better understanding.