Pieces of April

Pieces of April Opening scene Acoustic steel guitar with child(p) track Close up of April in layer= implies non ready to get up This is your life-sized day we dont want to miss this opportunity Bobby drags April from the bed, shoves her in the shower No Bobby Bobby starts do the food while April sits on the toilet saying Im coming Costume- threatening eyeliner -black nail polish -tattoos -black boyfriend April is a rebellious soulfulness needs someone to help her (in life) egg- Bobby Meeting the family No music No contentment in bed JOY JOY Tracking shot of father looking through the house for disrupting his family frantically looking for Joy both on and daughter Join in search Joy is found in the bluish alone in the car (passenger seat) Miss en scene everyone get ready Joy is control eelpout.Starting to prepare convey Giving dinner Bobby in control-stirring, reading packets ( stuffy up on Bobbys hands) April awaits incompetent -drops jokester, cant cut onions, stuffs whol e cultivated celery in turkey Theyre probably not even going to come Cross cut to family If not now when mom) What makes her think she can cook all of a sudden (Beth) April is the problem (Beth) Everyone questions Joy most how she is feeling- we realize she is not well (two shots) Bobby shows all the stuff he brought Be careful theyre worth more than than you are how much did they cost They werent cheap. Accents. Mimi got yourself a deal April throws them in the bin-still brook by ult experiences, broken relationship with her mother Food as a motif April is cooking Thanks braggart(a) dinner Joy asks her mother did you eat as a greeting Family stops to buy a lot of donuts- Implies they will be hungry because April slant cook. They dont deserve decorations (April) April rips up the place card when she writes Mom replenishment it with Joy showing that he does not front Joy as her mom April is made to seem helpless- Bobby gets her up and ready -Bobby starts cooking Bobby has organized the decorations -when April discovers the oven doesnt work the first thing she does is call out the windowpane for Bobby-making mashed potatoes with uncooked potatoes April goes door to door in her apartment block looking for help (later this is an example of her imagery Some new piercing, some new ugly tattoos, we can experience the disaster that is her life and go home Glimpse of hope/change apparently this guy Bobby reminds her of me the girls got problems- implies that a young middle class girl has an easy life When April reveals her mothers impending death the neighbors change the POP one last materialize to be with the people you love you dont get along do you High angle shots of April Cooking the turkey You havent been back Believe it she prefers it that way Im the first pancake Discussing nearly what she is cooking stuffing from a loge and cranberry sauce from a can enforces the idea that April cant cool (helpless) but also implies she was not cared for her b y her mother We onto want to be early Joy -choosing a different route to make the trip Worth the sequence Group shot of April in between the neighbors in their kitchen as they rook and discuss their nothing special carte when April discusses her menu, she makes it seem too simple- really nothing special showing the contrast between the intent of making a special last family meal and not pitting much phaseal opinion into it. Have you done it sooner? Then its not nothing Being taught how to make cranberry sauce implies April has not had this type of experience with her make mother Aprils perseverance in trying to find an oven to chock her turkey shows her change in thought about having a successful last meal- this is also reinforced when they continue to have thanks with child(p) when her family dont turn up Photo motif happy memories Since when was she in the picture? -taking a Christmas photo, fake smiles, ling delay, everyone there but April When Joy gets the family to stop and pretends she wants to talk to them about preparing for her death but instead mocks how unwholesome she expects Aprils cooking to be how each of you in your stimulate way is going to handle(pause) discarding your uneaten DOD -shows her need to belie/control her family Irony- Joy thinks April is a screw up but at the same time we see her eating Junk food, smoking dope and alluding to a very sexually promiscuous olden. Neighbor Wayne dialogue about the care you need to fasten on with cooking a turkey (hes annoying) while April is trying to take care with what shes cooking- she mocks him tick tock showing her meaner side (like her mother? Memories 3 shot- Joy leans on Tommys shoulders showing her stuffiness with her son Motif- photographs (album)- Joy insists on slowing her mother the photos (that Timmy took) f her surgery (breast removal) this is my favorite (without breasts) Series of close ups April putting food in oven putting up table setting table decorating the apartm ent black staircase shows she does expect her family to turn up That you stop -contrast between Joys look of illness and Beets look of hurt at her mothers words- you feel sympathy for them both Who are you? My daughter is kind Dotted not anymore Joy then I dont fuck you Dotted Reflection I am so full of life why am I so hard (on Beth) -Joy reflects on her relationship with her children I can notwithstanding think of one vivid beautiful memory- turns out that all her good memories of April are really about Beth That makes Joy angry/panic forcing them to stop their Journey Petulance, shoplifting, fire in the kitchen, flicking matches at Beth, using a lighter to trim Tommys hair, the drugs. no wonder I have cancer shes the cancer I cant have another bad experience Vive had too many bad experiences Insight into Aprils criminal past when she tries to break into Wanes apartment with a crow bar Bad girl (Wayne) When she discovers he has stolen a pegleg she attacks him uniform a bad g irl a very bad girl No Im not (sitting alone on the steps (high angle)) The meaning of Thanks Giving the first year on their own was hard Really really hard -implying this was true for herself as well This one day where everyone seemed to know they needed each other They knew for certain they couldnt do it on their own. - implying that this is true for April on this day.Retrieving the turkey flavour n pepper shakers implies she wants to put the past behind her Have a fake turkey leg to replace the missing one implies that everything can be fixed Contrast- April excitedly descends the stairwell to meet her family Theyre ere. Theyre here April woefully ascends the stairwell after seeing they have left (destroying her decorations as she goes) Resolution when Joy witnesses a woman passing her young girl (abandoning her) in the bathroom (with her knickers still around her ankles) she realizes that she has been abandoning April all her life -she is at fault Mom, mom (echoes of the past) Freeze frame (still shots) of everyone having thanks giving together- no dialogue (nothing needs to be said) final family photo (with Bobby)= one last happy memory implying only happy memory in the lead time ran out (sound of the camera sound)