Carnage - Film (Week 22)

Crew:

Director - Roman Polanski

Producer - Said Ben Said

Writer - Yasmina Reza

Music - Alexandre Desplat

Cinematographer - Pawel Edelman

Cast:

Penelope Longstreet - Jodie Foster

Nancy Cowen - Kate Winslet

Alan Cowen - Christopher Waltz

Michael Foster - John C. Reilly

Genre:

Comedy

Drama

Themes:

Verbal Aggression

Parenthood

Marriage

Defence

Social Behaviour

Year:

2011

Running Time:

79 minutes

Production Company:

SBS Productions

Budget:

$25 million

Box Office:

$27 million

Narrative:
Two pairs of parents come together to discuss a dispute between their children. A film set in one room over the period of an 1 hour and 20 mins, we get to see how everything goes down hill, and how conversation can jump to different ones. 

Themes analysis:

Parenthood is a main theme within this film because the characters act very formal and adult-like at the start of the film, being very kind to each other and making the situation very calm and easy to the handle. Then throughout the film, they seem to lose the parent-like attitude and everything goes downhill. They seem to turn into children themselves.  

Social Behaviour is another themes within the movie, because it shows how people really act. It is quite an accurate representation of how people react to certain things that are said or what someone had done. People react and act in different ways and the movie shows that. Christopher Waltz's character is very calm and reacts very bluntly and sarcastically to what is said, while Jodie Foster's character cries when everything gets too much for her.