Schoolboy Requesting Monthly Allowance

Question: Discuss about the Schoolboy Requesting Monthly Allowance. Answer: Introduction: Robert Bresson has been one of the key icons behind the film production. Apart from his significant contribution. Bresson is appreciated by many for bringing crucial changes in the film industry(Reader Keith, 2010). In his film career, Bresson has directed and made several films for the period ranging from 1934 to 1999. L'Argent film meaning money is one of the Bressons outstanding film work. In the L'Argent film, Bresson brings out the theme of crime. The film commences with a schoolboy requesting monthly allowance from his father. The father obliges but the boy presses for more the demands that the father declines. The boy's mother intervenes but father hold to his stand. This leads the boy to pawn his watch to a friend. However, the friend gives the boy forged 500-franc. The boy uses the counterfeit to buy a picture frame. When the core manager in the Photoshop finds, he confronts his partner for accepting a vague note. The partner scolds the core manager back for accepting to counterfeit notes last week. The manager promises to foot gas bills with all the forged notes in their possession. All the forged notes are transferred to the gas man, Yvon. Yvon uses the forged notes to pay for the restaurant tab. However, the waiter notices the vague notes. Yvon is arrested. During the trial, the photoshop denies having given Yvon forged notes. Yvon is not jailed, but he loses his job. He has no other source of income, and therefore he ends up acting as a getaway car driver for robbery activities. However, the robbery does no succeed, and Yvon is arrested. Yvon is sentenced to three years. While still serving his imprisonment term his daughter dies. After that, his wife writes to him alerting him that she is leaving. Yvon attempts suicide, but fortunately, he survives. After three-year imprisonment Yvon has nothing. Immediately, he kills hotel staff and steals theirs till. A kind woman accepts to take in Yvon despite objections from her father. After some time, late in the night, Yvon kills each one in the house using an axe. He then goes to the restaurant and reveals to the police officer what is has done. Again, he is arrested. On the review of Bressons LArgent film, Richard Corliss acknowledges that "exploring the Bresson's film is like exploring on top of Mount Everest. The flow of the film is quite clear, and no element of the film goes without being understood. The adventure viewer of Bressons film is advised to come prepared to experience the new world of the filmmaking(Cunneen Joseph, 2006). Corliss argument elaborates how Bresson artistic style has transformed the film industry to the point where today's filmmakers cannot reach. The film work of Bressons films was designed based on the unique plot and content that fascinates majority of the film artists and viewers even in the current generation. Bressons cinematic style emphasized being visionary in addition to the content provided in the movie. This means that Bresson wanted to show the viewers less and let them suggest more by themselves. Bresson incorporated the viewers in his film work by giving them a chance to infer, think and discover things for themselves(Marzola, 2016). This made the Bressons film viewers to be active participants other than being a passive recipient of the film content. Bressons cinematic style gives the viewers an opportunity to mediate what could have occurred or what is going to occur in the future. Apart from Bresson outstanding style of capturing the images, his directional language correlates with all the aspects of the film. Bresson's use of language can be traced in the characters, images, and sounds used in the film. His directional language was well observed by David Thomson who noted that Bresson's films serve a purpose that other directors are yet to discover. Thomson goes further to note that Bresson is a director to be emulated by the other directors(Thompson Bordwell, 2008). References Cunneen, Joseph. (2006). Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film. New York: Continuum International Pub. Group. Marzola, L. (2016). A Society Apart: The Early Years of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. International Journal, 28(4), 1-28. Reader, Keith. (2010). Robert Bresson. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. Thompson, K., Bordwell, D. (2008). Film History: An Introduction. New York: The New York Times.