In the film Perfumed Nightmare we follow the journey of a young man that is from the Philippines and his journey outside of his homeland. Kidlat travels to Paris where he gets to experience life in a progressive city. This film was very interesting to watch but it was a little unclear as to why it was a Third Cinema. A scene that stood out to me the most was the ending scene that played right before the credits. The end scene where Kidlat takes off in that spaceship like structure thing can be interpreted in many different ways. In class we discussed about it representing Kidlat not being satisfied with his home country but also not being satisfied with the new world he has encountered. This scene is important because we see the main character make the realization that his home town and the more enhanced country are not satisfying. His home country doesn’t have the technology or modern day machinery that helps everyday life. He wants to enhance his town and make it a better place by giving them things that other countries already have. For example, Kidlat mentions to the people of his town that he would make it rich in America so he could get his town a stop light for the bridge. This shows that the underdevelopment happening in third world countries is frustrating to him. Once Kidlat arrives in Paris he realizes that Paris is very developed and is growing bigger every day. With these huge developments and coming up all over the city he notices there are few actual venders that are original and independent. The giant super market that is being built is causing all the street venders to run out of business and this upsets Kidlat. Seeing the people losing their jobs to these giant corporations frustrates Kidlat and makes him curse the cities that are being over ruled by the places like the super market. Kidlat taking off in the ship thing is him no longer being happy with what is happening in the world. I think that Kidlat had higher expectations for how things were outside of the Philippines but once he saw how industrialization had some downfalls for locals than he realized that he no longer belonged there. Perfumed Nightmare had many scenes that we could interpret but that ending scene was one that stood out to me an made me wonder why this movie was made and its goal.
Intro to Film and Media: Spring 2014
After reading over your post a couple of times, I actually feel like you do understand why it is third cinema based on my understanding. I see in your post how you are realizing that there is a comparison between Kidlat’s unindustrialized home country and then industrialized Paris, France. To me this is the main reason it is classified as being part of the third cinema. In most shots the film simply presents life as it is. It sets up a struggle for the protagonist between understanding the under development of his society and the “over developed” Paris. It seems as though you come to this conclusion based on the final scene. After missing class on the Wednesday after this film, your insights are very helpful to me. This was one of the most difficult scenes of the film for me to interpret. Going back to third cinema, I googled it and this helped further my understanding of what is all included in that category. Also, the Philippines is being depicted in this film, but I feel this to be more of a simplistic reason that this film would be classified as third cinema.
I googled the definition of Third Cinema and from what I read, it seems to be a movement that mimicked Hollywood cinema and is made to be viewed for entertainment and to make money. So from that definition I can see that this classification of cinema allows the director the freedom to have scenes like the spaceship like thing Kidlat takes in the movie. I think that by it being a Third Cinema it allows Kidlat to use fantasy to draw metaphors from his scenes that the audience can relate to. In my opinion the reasoning for Kidlat to use the spaceship to go back home was because of what you were saying about the technological advantages that the world offered him. I think the spaceship symbolizes the technology Kidlat wants to bring back to his home country. I think your reading about Kidlat’s feelings towards the end of the movie are spot on. He is in this weird place where he is disappointed with the outside world but is also disappointed with the living conditions for the people in his home country.
This is a very interesting way to look at this last scene. The way that you observed the last scene actually helped me understand the movie a little more and how the ideas of capitalism are presented in the film. This idea that just because certain countries have more advancements doesn’t necessarily mean they are a better country. The way you analyzed capitalism with in this movie is very interesting, when you see all of the smaller business getting wiped out due to big business really shows the downside to capitalism. This movie does show the pros and cons to capitalism.
I can relate to what you’re saying because you chose a scene from Perfumed Nightmare that is a good representation of third cinema. You are addressing the aspect of third cinema that involves the conflict between modernization and more traditional ways of life. You refer to the street vendors (traditional) going out of business as a result of the new giant super market (modern). You also mention how the modernization that Kidlat always wanted did not live up to his expectations and is no longer for him. Kidlat’s eventual rejection of modernism is a critique of the social and economic conditions that prevailed in his country and elsewhere under the guise of modernization that Kidlat appears to view as a furtherance of colonial oppression. I believe that this shows how Perfumed Nightmare is an example of third cinema.
Your observations about the film were super interesting for me, and quite honestly pretty helpful in gaining some understanding about what was going on. I think what might be interesting to consider, and what might help make the classification as third cinema a bit more clear, are the more technical aspects of the film. Cinematography, editing, sound, etc. I think these things help put it in this third cinema category, and I think they might contribute more to your analysis! Either way, I still feel like you had a very good grasp on the film and the story that Kidlat was trying to tell us.
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