because the thesis is the most important part of an essay, and i'm fond of mine

have i mentioned that i LOVE my cinema class? i have never been able to experience film like i've wanted; unlike art, i had no knowledge of technique or history upon which to gauge a film . . . now i do. at least in part.

this is why i was so pleased with how my film analysis turned out; to break down a film and figure out why a director (or auteur, depending on where you're from and when you're making movies) did what he did. the biggest thing i've hit upon is that EVERYTHING is intentional. the noises, the background, all the things that you think you're so clever for having discovered: they put that in just for you . . . and everybody else. sorry.

anyway, i got said analysis back and did fairly well (a ninety-two for those who are concerned) and i figured i'd share my thesis with you, mostly because i'm just surprised that it came out of my head, and more importantly that i understand every bit of it:

In Sous les Toits de Paris, Clair, articulates these desires to use sound as a means to extend the narrative through his play of non-diegetic and diegetic sound and visually informative cinematography, in coalition with astute mise-en-scéne to indicate the cyclical social realism of average Parisians.