Love Rosie Research Papers

Let’s face it. There has been a time when we all experienced some sort of rebellion when reaching a certain age of what we classify as “adult” (aka 18 years old). Such things like making reckless decisions in drinking underage, smoking, having unprotected sex, and many more. Similarly, in the film, Love Rosie, directed by Christian Ditter, two childhood friends (Rosie & Alex) take the viewers on a journey through their own stories of life-changing decisions and their impacts. The director specifically highlights this throughout the film in order for the viewers to understand that one becomes more mature in their decisions through life-changing experiences by using the following tools: close-up shots during traumatic revelations, eye-level shots

This is first seen when Rosie decides to lose her virginity at the age of 18 when she had a failed protected sex with Greg. A close-up shot of Rosie is detected when she finds out she is pregnant after receiving an acceptance letter to Boston University. The close-up shot captures her shocked response and slow recognition of her reckless mistake of losing her virginity. Hence, the close-up shot makes the scene a life-changing event to Rosie and further teaches her to become more mature in her life decisions as she adapts to becoming a single mom. The viewer sees this later in the film when Rosie makes more careful decisions in taking up a hotel job in earning money for her daughter, and embracing solutions to her problems because the close-up shot is a daily reminder for Rosie to not mess up. In addition to this, Rosie also matures throughout the film in her decisions when choosing what she finds beneficial to her future. This is because of the life-changing event of her shocked reaction when finding out she was pregnant with Greg’s child through the lense of the close-up

He struggles in not embracing his own feelings for Rosie, which resulted him in multiple divorces, as well as an affair from one of his ex-wife. A life-changing event and an eye-level shot of Alex is shown when he finally realizes his feelings for Rosie after she married Greg. The use of an eye-level shot captures Alex staring directly at the viewer which indicates a mirror of himself (through the lense of the viewer) and the lies that he has been living in the past years. As a result of the eye-level shot and life changing event, he soon developed maturity in stepping up by confessing his love to Rosie through multiple matured decisions. A few examples was when Alex sent a letter to Rosie telling her she deserved better and verbally acknowledging to her that she was the only one who could understand him at the end of the film. His characteristics and embracement in inner-conflicts matured throughout the film because of the use of an eye-level shot, as well as the life-changing event of finding out Rosie’s marriage to Greg. All of this combined further enhanced him in making good matured decisions in his future