There are several similarities and differences in the movies Wendy and Lucy and The Passenger. These include features such as camera work, settings, costumes and sets. These two films depict struggle and experience, where it takes place, how the people dress, and the sets that each movie uses. We can compare these two films to real life. Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt in 2008, looks closely at the life of a struggling girl who is travelling with her dog Lucy. I know so much about Wendy, although this movie tells me so little. I know almost nothing about where she came from, what her life was like, how realistic she is about the world, and how she feels about the world now. But I know, or feel, everything about Wendy at this moment: …show more content…
Although we never see what happens after she left alone on a freight train but for the first time she did not seem scared. On the contrary, The Passenger is about a man who wants to experience and see life from another person’s eyes. Sadly, Locke died in the movie. To Wendy those difficult circumstances she went through represented a new path for her, but to Locke switching identities was his …show more content…
The film was shot in a small town near a train yard, and that made it seem real. Some elements helped to make the story seem more real were the lightning that made Wendy’s face look sad throught the movie, the focus of the camera that mainly focused on Wendy but also on showing her surroundings all the time, and the sound of trains passing by, and her humming were also the two main sounds in the movie. The Passenger movie location was also consistent with its story. The movie was shot in Africa, and the camera slowly shows the viewers the desert that surrounds Locke, the people were not very fluent in English, and the main element was the fan and the fly that was making noises in the movie. Even though the films have their differences they both tell so little but show everything through action and movement. In Wendy and Lucy, Wendy did not choose to be poor. According to this statement, “Wendy and Lucy lays bare the reality that poverty is a condition of circumstance rather than character.” In the Passenger movie, that was the opposite of Wendy’s life situation, Locke chose to do what he did and never regretted. Therefore, I agree with this statement by Martin Walsh, “ such a radical severance from the structures of one’s identity leads clearly to