My American Uncle Excerpt 6: Jean with a rat’s head; flight behavior (2’35”)

Excerpt 6

 Questions

1.

What does the experiment with the rat demonstrate?

2. At what moment in this excerpt do the scientific and fictional discourses become parallel? What are the respective roles of the voice-over and the images in this respect?
3. Where is the humor here? What role does the humor play?
4.

From the viewpoint of behavioral biology, what do the departures of the three main characters represent?