The lack of understanding (Kitchen Stories)
Objective Review: The following three scenes and dialogue to me provide the most important elements of the film: 1. When a fellow observer wakes up Folke in the middle of the night. Specifically Green saying, “Shit Folke, what the hell are we doing? We sit up there on our pedestals and think we understand everything. How can we think we can understand anything about people- simply by observing them.” 2. Between Folke and Isak, Isak asking, “How can we understand each other without communicating?” 3. Isak defending his peep hole by asking, “Is it any better than you observing me” to Folke. To me, these elements speak to the importance of the human interaction, and how the characters in the film treat each other based on their unique perspectives and goals. Reaction: Beyond failing the Bechdel test, and my concerns about non- ethical human subject research, the movie left me w...