Belonging- Peter Skrzynecki

Belonging
–
Folio,
Oral
and
Writing
Task
 
 Part
1:
Folio
Task
 Visual
Text:
Film
 Title:
Edward
Scissorhands
 Release
Date:
21
March
1991
(Australia)
 Director:
Tim
Burton
 
 The
Film
Edward
Scissorhands
tells
a
story
of
an
isolated
individual
and
his
migration
 into
a
suburban
neighbourhood.
Edward’s
ownership
of
scissors
as
hands
has
proven
 to
be
a
great
adversity,
in
his
struggle
to
achieve
acceptance
and
a
true
sense
of
 belonging.
Director
Tim
Burton
has
highlighted
the
idea
of
rejection
faced
by
 individuals
possessing
strange
physical
characteristics
in
modern
society,
and
its
 direct
link
it
has
to
immediate
judgement
of
that
person.

 
 This
text
develops
an
understanding
to
Edward
not
belonging
with
his
lifestyle
as
 he’s
living
in
a
distinctly
separate
world.
 In
the
opening
scenes
of
the
film,
Burton
utilizes
the
effect
of
colour
combined
with
 an
aerial
shot
to
represent
separation
between
Edward
Scissorhands
and
the
rest
of
 the
neighbourhood.
The
single
shadowy
gothic
house
present
at
the
end
of
the
 street
is
contrasted
with
the
symmetrical
and
brightly
coloured
houses
of
the
 neighbourhood,
illustrates
that
there
is
a
severance
between
Edward
and
the
 neighbours.

 
 In
the
aftermath
of
being
rejected
by
the
community,
the
use
of
flashbacks
is
 employed
to
depict
the
comforting
emotions
of
belonging
Edward
has
experienced
 in
his
previous
life.
The
use
of
such
comforting
flashbacks
evokes
emotion
and
 compels
the
audience
to
feel
sympathetic
towards
Edward.
 
 Symbolism
is
also
used
to
emphasize
Edward’s
“Scissorhands”
as
being
the
greatest
 obstacle,
preventing
his
acceptance
into
the
society.
To
find
true
belonging
is
a
 difficulty
within
itself,
when
this
difficulty
is
amplified
with
further
complications
in
 Edwards
case
“Scissorhands”
the
task
seems
almost
impossible.
 
 The
ideas
presented
in
‘Edward
Scissorhands’
are
similar
to
Peter
Skrzynecki’s
 Migrant
Hostel.
In
migrant
hostel
the
simile
“like
a
homing
pigeon,
Circling
to
get
it
...