Daisies

In my opinion, this film was very confusing and hard to follow. I personally did not enjoy this film, but did enjoy the fact that I got exposure to it, because it was something new to me. There were some things in this film that were blatantly obvious to me like the cutting of sausages and abandoning men at the train station after they've been used. However, there were many ideas that I did not even think of until they were mentioned by the reading and the presentation. Even after hearing these ideas and words to back them up, I still find it hard to understand. The movie seemingly had no plot, characters who remained nameless, and various idea/setting changes instantaneously. I think that if I had more of an idea what the movie was supposed to be about, that I would have a different opinion.

Because of the fact that I admittedly don't understand very much of the movie, I've chosen to analyze the bombing/machinery scene in the beginning and end of the film. I believe that the bombing scenes were introduced into the movie to show how the world truly is. It shows people acting the very worst they can act by showing total war and chaos going on. When the film occasionally switches to the machinery shots, I think that this is showing the rest of the real world continuing on with their daily lives like clock work. 

Shortly after the opening credits, the girls are shown on screen and they say something that basically says that the rest of the world is spoiled and so they will be spoiled too. I think the word "spoiled" here has double meaning. It could mean that the rest of the world is getting things that they want, so they are going to go out and get what they want. What I really think this means is that these women know that the rest of the world (in their minds) is bad (like spoiled eggs are called "bad") and this causes them to act out as well. 

Once the girls are crushed by the falling chandelier, the chaos of the girls seems to be extended by the film itself. I believe that this is true of the film because of the way that it transitions back into the same imagery as it did in the beginning of the film. You might have thought that the death of the girls meant an end to the chaos, but then the film shows even more chaos at the end, and the rest of the real world continues on with their daily lives like clock work. This sort of imagery seems to even tell me that the world, in a way, feeds off chaos, and that it is the reason we are still running (like a machine).