These Critical Literacy questions are focussed around this film named 'The Albatross'. The goal of this task is to learn about film aspects and how they contribute to the creation and the visual and sound effects of the film.
What is the text about? How do we know?
This text is a short animated film titled 'The Albatross' that is just under seven minutes long. It is about a lonely, elderly man and his struggles with alcohol. The man is never seen talking or communicating with anyone besides the creature featured within the film. Even then, communication is simply a bond shared through their desire to drink. He is seen to finish an entire bottle, leading to my conclusion about him struggling with alcohol. The creature featured in the short film is meant to represent a reflection of the elderly man and his only desire to drink himself away. The film has a sweet ending though. The bird that represents the man's other choice is eventually chosen and the creature has left him to die alone.
Whose allowed to speak? Who is quoted?
The only one who is seen talking is the creature while he communicates with the man, but receives no response. This is seen as a representation of the man's inability to say no to the struggles he has or the insistence of others.
What does the author of the text want us to know?
The creators of the film want us to know that there are other options. In the end, the man chose to overcome the creature and what he was forcing him to do by choosing the bird instead. The bird is that other option. While he does not know what may come of him by choosing the bird, he has left the demonic creature behind and is shown to defeat him. The ending credits show the empty bottle being dropped to the ocean floor, *COUGH COUGH* LITTERING *COUGH COUGH* representing how he has dropped everything the demon wanted him to do for something as small as the bird.
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