Musical-

One Night The Moon is very different from the other musical i’ve watched. It has very minimum dialogue and the dialogues can be redundant. The story line is very simple- The whole village help to search for a missing girl, the songs are the key narrative in the movie, it establish different characters in the movie and it reveals the emotions of the main characters.

In our weekly readings, Barry mentioned that the musical is the only genre that consistently violates the otherwise rigid logic of classic narrative cinema. It narrates the movie through a songs written specially for the movie. Characters breaks into charmed space- musical privileged space is a place of transcendence where time stands still. where contingent concerns are stripped away to reveal the essence of things (Rick Altman). Characters break out into song and dance to express their emotion to the audience.

After this week’s readings and class, I finally understood the difference between a musical film and a film with music ( I always wonder if movies like pitch perfect fits into musical genre)