12/15/16: The Language Everybody Knows

    It is a common misconception that stories are to be simply told; they are a said and done deal, something which will linger in your mind for a couple of weeks at most and then slowly fade away, anything but a distant memory. "Feast" adequately disproves this, and does so in the most elegant way possible.

    In short, what if I told you that there was a language which every person in the world knew? What if there was a way to convey how you feel without the use of letters, words, or sentences? What if I told you that, since the moment you were born, you knew this language, and that it speaks to you in one of the most profound ways imaginable?

    The short film "Feast" is capable of tapping into the hearts of so many with minimal usage of the English language because of one simple principle: show, don't tell. Exposition is great filler, but the beauty of a short film is that it doesn't have the time to deal with such a ridiculous concept. Instead, it's much more efficient to convey the story through this, "other language," I mentioned earlier, and "Feast" does so with flying colors. To cut it short: "Feast" effectively uses body language in order to present an "implied story," of which is full of heart warming love and cuteness.

    What I wrote above is, in a nutshell, part of what we did today in class. To start things off, Mr. Rivers presented five different sentences, some of which were the variety of, "'No Country for Old Men' opens with wide shots of West Texas," and, "Wall-E and Eve’s romance blossoms with all the sweet nostalgia of old-timey musicals like Hello, Dolly!" He gave us one other question to go along with them: "Does it evaluate?"

    After discussing these questions with our groups, we came together as a class to discuss them. Afterwards, we returned to the Feast Review document which we worked on yesterday and continued with parts three and four.