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#1 Analysis and Reflection: Question 3

July 27, 2014 by kimberlyteoh   

I was able to visualise a setting based on the woman’s description about her travel to the North (I assume that she did, to be honest, I wasn’t so sure). Soon, a man’s voice sets in, overlapping hers, followed by another. At first, this caused me to feel disorientated because it was difficult to focus on whose voice I should listen to. Listening to the track another time, I noticed that the people who were describing their experience of the North had different ideas or experiences about the North which eventually made me realise that it intended to convey the concept of what the North actually is. In other words, it relates back to the title of the documentary. When the host, Glenn Gould, mentioned that the following speakers were people who had actually been and lived in the North, therefore truly experiencing what it was like to be in the North as opposed to just traveling and staying there for some days and finally returning to their respected worlds when they were done, I came to the conclusion that he aimed to dispel the superficial ideas/descriptions of the North by the previous speakers.


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