Post #4

The movies is a musical featuring music from the Beatles and it revolves around a number of characters during the late 1960s where the political tension is out of control and the many anti-war protests create a backdrop for a love story. The Character of Max has been deployed to Vietnam. Lucy has become involved with the Students for a Democratic Republic (SDR) and Jude begins to dislike the close relationship between Lucy and Paco from the SDR. This begins to create strain in the relationship between Lucy and Jude and also begins to affect Jude’s art.

This scene has always struck with mainly due to the editing that that producers chose to do. This whole scene starts of somber and calm and then escalades in emotion with the relation to the amount of violence that occurs during this time period and also in relation to Jude’s anger and strain in his relationship with Lucy. The use of strawberries can best be described as a representation of the blood and bombs. The way Jude squishes and throws the strawberries and then directly afterwards the strawberries falling from the sky while max is in Vietnam. Another aspect is the use of explosive sound effects (bombs, missiles, helicopters) over the singing of  “Strawberry Fields Forever”. It’s also interesting to note the use of projection as a way to bring these friends, who are in different circumstances, together. The scene is also very hard to describe because of how much is happening  in terms of image and sound but due to this sensory overload it also helps to present a sense of urgency and anger to the audience.