This final exercise asks you to reflect again on these course goals by focusing on the expressive powers of silence:
Silence itselfthe things one declines to say or is forbidden to name the discretion that is required between different speakersis less the absolute limit of discourse the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary than an element that functions alongside the things said with them and in relation to them within over-all [rhetorical] strategies. There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying such things . . .
Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality Volume One: An Introduction p. 27
How does one talk about what hasnt been said or shown? Is there a stylea particular literary or cinematic wayof not saying or showing something? If so does that style differ from author to author director to director work to work or perhaps decade to decade? Do you have a style of communicating something by not saying or showing all that you may be meaning to express?
These questions should have new relevance for you in the wake of our readings films and discussions over the course of the semester. Choose passages or scenes from two of the three films: Blue Is the Warmest Color The Witnesses and Wild Sideand say what you can about how they seem to refrain from saying or showing (or avowing disclosing confirming) something. Do your examples ways of not saying or showing something bear on their authors experiences of or perspectives on their worlds? Do they bear on your own as well? If so how?
Be as specific as you can showing how your selected passages and scenes may speak even when seemingly silent or reticent.
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