"The Dying Swan" reaction

Today, we watched three short, silent films. One of them was called "The Dying Swan." The film is about a ballerina, Gizella who cannot speak at all, but her soul and beauty is what reveals her true self.  She falls in love with a man named Viktor.  Viktor ends up cheating on Gizella with another woman. Gizella is heartbroken and cries to her father. She goes away and turns to her passion, which is dancing to pursue her dreams. Along the story, we see a very strange artist, Valerly who is seems to be obsessed with the young ballerina. At the end of the film, Valerly kills Gizella because she wasn't showing enough emotion or sadness when she was posing for him to make an artwork.

The use of the music throughout the film shows emotion for the characters. For example, in the beginning of the film, a slow, mellow type of instrumental music of what sounds like cello, violins, and piano is playing. This indicated to me that this was going to be a tragic story. When Viktor, the man Gizella falls in love first takes her out, the music increases faster to more upbeat, like something good is going to happen between the two of them, but at the same time there was a sadness tone to it, foreshadowing that their relationship are going to end badly. Another thing that stood out to me, was the narrated diologue throughout the film so the audience can understand what the characters were saying to each other. I could also understand the facial expressions each character were displaying. Overall, this was a very good, different film from what I am used to seeing, but I did enjoy most of it even if the ending was a bit depressing.