In class, we have been watching Beyonce's Lemonade movie. Throughout the movie, Beyonce has many quotes which reflect the stance she takes on race and gender stereotypes. Beyonce's movie is interesting to watch, because personally I have never watched a full movie of an artist's album. The movie breaks down many stereotypes by the way that Beyonce talks, and the way she acts while the song is going on. She is obviously trying to show her true beliefs while showing them in a captivating way.
I was captivated by the quotes she meticulously thought of and placed in the perfect places. The first quote that struck out to me was, "So what are you going to say at my funeral now that you've killed me? Here lies the mother of my children both loving and dead. Rest in peace my true love who I took for granted." Beyonce is stating the thoughts of many women who have been betrayed by their husbands. Beyonce is trying to say that women need to be able to stand up against their husbands if they are not being treated the way they should be.
I also found the poems that she read interesting. I liked the way that they led from one topic to another. It was a nice transition. They had a great effect because everything got silent and it was only very subtle background that actually had a lot of meaning.
ReplyDeleteThe poems that she read the whole time during her visual album were pretty interesting to me as well. The beginning scenes of some music videos quickly switched the tone from something humorous to something very meaningful to her.
ReplyDeleteI love the quotation you pulled out here Bjorn. For me the movie was a little hard to follow at first, but after reading a summary article online and going back and looking at the lyrics there really are a lot of powerful quotations like this one.
ReplyDelete