Jan 7th, 2010 by cm2
Passionless Moments, although possibly one of Campion’s most whimsical pieces, has all the hallmarks of her later films. It is concerned with the insignificant, unsolicited moments of daydreaming when one is caught almost unawares. The film consists of ten self-contained vignettes of the sudden thoughts of ten very different individuals. Classical Hollywood cinema concerns itself with the heightened moments of passion of individuals with whom we identify in some way because of their bravery, humour, innocence, roic qualities and so on. In traditional feature films and documentaries we are usually introduced to the characters’ backgrounds, motives and problems. However, in Passionless Moments the characters serve only to illustrate some quirky aspect of human nature and relationships.
The film is narrated by a detached BBC documentary-styled male voice-over – the voice of authority – which tells the viewers about each one minute segment of the film as though it were a highly significant study of life.
The humour, the way the moments are exaggerated, are underscored by the visual treatment. A fish-eye lens is used to distort distances as in “Ibrahim makes sense of it”; Ibrahim contemplates the strangeness of his perception – the fact that from one side of his body he can see the word ‘Sex’ and from the other side he can see the word ‘Thing’, the words being on the ends of a single-line aphorism on a painting behind him.
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