"diva"

Christopher Galarza
N00395152
Spring 2007
Core 2: Time based media



“Diva”



Diva is a movie best described as a manipulator of sound that takes its soundtrack for the film and makes it one of its main focuses and can considered one of the main characters for the film. When watching the film you begin to understand and appreciate the art and time that went into the film. Diva is a film that came out in 1981.
In the film “Diva” the main character goes by the name of Jules, he is a mail courier that has a fascination with an opera singer. He makes a tape of her performance, normally this would not be of any importance but this artist if different, and she refuses to record her music. The films plot if strung together by the sodalities in its soundtrack. Moods and changes in scenery are provoked by the music, and the music however is not background music that the characters are not aware of, but brilliantly the music is playing because they have set it.
One of the most incredible scenes to me in this film is when Jules gets of his bike, and the music that you think will continues to move the scene stops. The reason for this sudden interruption not only happens in the movie but with the viewer. It’s great to see how easily a moment in the film can be changed just by the sodalities in the music.
Going into the plot of the film it is a little out there, but it becomes one of those creative films, it becomes an exocentric film of sorts. With eye and mind catching scenes like a man listing to hypnotic music while trying to put together a huge puzzle, the movie itself at times become a puzzle.
I enjoyed the film from begging to its end, it’s a recommendable buy or rent.