Lost in La Mancha (2002) - Blog task n. 8
- Can you identify the embedding and embedded narratives in Lost in La Mancha?
Lost in La Mancha is a documentary-like film. It is about a film set which encounters a variety of complications during the production of filming. The audience get an insight of the crew on set and the actors/characters and how they film the story. The film ends up 'abandoned' because the actors weren't as good as expected and one of them got quite unwell and was unable to attend filming for a couple months. The embedded narrative in the film is where the audience can identify the film which is being made in the original film.
- Can you identify of different microtexts present in the film (spatial-temporal, psychological, ideological)
- Can you identify a shift in narrator or in narrative?
The shift in the narrative is when the crew decided to give up and abandon their work that they spent their time on. The audience see more of a shift in narrator because there are interviews of the crew included in the film which gives the audience an insight of their opinions during the set.
- Where does the sense of validity (and truth) come from in the film?