This sonnet starts out with a really cheerful and cheering description of the subject as being as important as food, and like fresh showers of rain to the earth, but then while it keeps the importance of the subject, it brings in the idea that the worry of the lack of it, or of losing it, also brings with it a certain amount of 'strife' that is part of it and cannot be separated. It is a nice contrast or juxtaposition of feelings and comes across pretty well – although maybe it works well for me because I am Northern Irish so any metaphor which links around being miserly is going to connect with me easily?!
Anyway, the film itself doesn't do such a great job of connecting with me or, I think, with the sonnet. Perhaps it is that I am not aware of the location and have never seen these little bronze figures before (although will next time I am in the area) but the meaning was lost on me regarding why the woman was dropping dollars both at the start and end of the film – once on purpose and the other I guess by accident. The gaze across the tracks device didn't really work for me and it seemed to clumsy to get to an connection of feast or famine when it came to her love (not that he appeared to actually be her love). I gave it a few views (the beauty of these films are that they are only minutes long) but still the meaning or significance escaped me.
The delivery of the text is clear and nicely paced so as to be easy to absorb, but ironically it is the nature of the film that made it more difficult. I found the on-screen action to be a distraction because it didn't naturally fit, nor did it make a lot of sense in context, so I found the film to demand so much of my brain on what the statues meant or why she was dropping money, that at times I realized the words were fading to the background, which is not really what is meant to happen.
It is a shame; the Sonnet Project films have frequently helped me appreciate a sonnet that seemed locked down when I just read the words to myself, but in this case the opposite is true – a text I think I understood is made harder to understand by the film.
Anyway, the film itself doesn't do such a great job of connecting with me or, I think, with the sonnet. Perhaps it is that I am not aware of the location and have never seen these little bronze figures before (although will next time I am in the area) but the meaning was lost on me regarding why the woman was dropping dollars both at the start and end of the film – once on purpose and the other I guess by accident. The gaze across the tracks device didn't really work for me and it seemed to clumsy to get to an connection of feast or famine when it came to her love (not that he appeared to actually be her love). I gave it a few views (the beauty of these films are that they are only minutes long) but still the meaning or significance escaped me.
The delivery of the text is clear and nicely paced so as to be easy to absorb, but ironically it is the nature of the film that made it more difficult. I found the on-screen action to be a distraction because it didn't naturally fit, nor did it make a lot of sense in context, so I found the film to demand so much of my brain on what the statues meant or why she was dropping money, that at times I realized the words were fading to the background, which is not really what is meant to happen.
It is a shame; the Sonnet Project films have frequently helped me appreciate a sonnet that seemed locked down when I just read the words to myself, but in this case the opposite is true – a text I think I understood is made harder to understand by the film.