My Girl
Director: Howard Zieff
Year: 1991
My
Girl directed by Howard Zieff had a very interesting plot. An 11-year-old girl, Vada, was obsessed
with death. Her mother had died, her father ran a funeral home, and towards the
end, her best friend Thomas J died. The movie was well composed, following the
rule of thirds and had some well-known actors such as Jamie Lee Curtis.
The
film started off to be interesting but towards the middle it lost interest. There
was no very specific plot like other movies. It had a good meaning to it, but
the movie could have been better. It was funny until the end when Thomas J
died.
The
moving shot on the bicycles really set the 1970’s scenery of the movie, along
with the music. The scene also began to get us to understand that Thomas J was
Vada’s best friend. Vada really only had one friend.
The
film did a really great job at getting us to become attached emotionally to
Vada. Her grandmother was surely to die soon, her father ignored her, and other
girls teased her. It also helped that the film was shot from Vada’s point of
view.
The
camera looked up at Vada from the bottom of the stairs to show how little Vada
felt in the world and in her father’s house. The lighting, much like in the
other movies I watched, was dim to symbolize fear and unknown.
The scene where Vada's father
answered the door and the cop told him that Thomas J died was shot from the top
of the stairs to the bottom. It made us feel sorry for her father. He had to go
upstairs and tell his daughter the news.
What
I really enjoyed about the film that was unlike other films was if someone said
something to Vada that she didn’t agree with, it would give us a thought from
inside her head that made us realize what she was thinking. It helped us
realize that she was still a young girl trying to grow up in a household with
out a family and a house full of death.
Overall,
I think that the movie could have been a lot better with a more intriguing
plot, but the director did a good job with the lines, the humor, the sadness and
the composition.
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