Vagabond Excerpt 1: The Discovery of Mona’s Body (2’55”)
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Vagabond Excerpt 1: The Discovery of Mona’s Body (2’55”)
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| 1. | Where is Mona’s body found? What does one find normally in such a place? What might that imply about Mona? |
| 2. | Why do we see people cleaning things while the gendarmes take pictures of the body? Again, what might that imply regarding Mona? |
| 3. | How might we characterize the police’s investigation of the dead woman? What do they know about her? |
| 4. | What is the goal of the narrator, whom we hear in voice-over after the dead body is taken away. Whom does she represent? How is she going to proceed? |
| 5. | Describe the shot in which we first see Mona alive. What do we see on the screen at the beginning of this shot, while we listen to the narrator? What does the camera then do? How might we interpret this shot? |