Symbolism

This post will mainly be surrounding the symbolism we decided to implement into our film. The majority of the short films, and postmodern movies that we took inspiration from had some form of symbolism in them. For example:

• The unknown bright score in Pulp Fiction, representing the importance of the briefcase.
• The noises and camera angles in The Black Hole, connoting something bad is going to happen.
• The Punisher skull in Dirty Laundry, implying to the audience that Frank Castle is still acting as a vigilante. Also the symbolic use of the bottle of alcohol to dispose of his enemies - beating his alcoholism, as well as the scum of the street.

The first symbolic gesture that we introduce is the masks. The masks are of a pig, horse and rooster. The Pig is the most important mask symbolically. Pigs are usually represented as a stereotype of greed, ostentatiousness, wealthy and gluttony in literature. What we decided to do was to implement this into our film to further this stereotype - with the Pig thus serving as the main antagonist. He gets greedy which leads to his demise and the demise of his colleagues.

The second symbolic gesture links to the loot itself. We decided to use a "Bright Light" editing effect to connote a sense of importance of what is in the bag containing the score, an intertextual reference to Pulp Fiction. However we see what is in the bag. Chocolate. We decided to include this into our film because it is a metaphor of the robbers being rich through how shiny the sweets look, and how 'rich' they are in taste.