Justin Gutierrez Michael Young Wicker Park Themes Message Love Lust Greed Disappointment In the end its not your eye that must decide What you see is not necessarily what you want its what you believe ID: 757389
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Devin JosephHyder ShujaJustin GutierrezMichael Young
Wicker ParkSlide2
Themes/ MessageLoveLustGreedDisappointment
“In the end its not your eye that must decide”What you see is not necessarily what you want its what you believe“looks can be deceiving”Slide3
Alex sees MattMatt sees Lisa and Alex sees that Matt like LisaMatt stalks Lisa; Lisa finds outThey start dating and fall in loveMatt wants Lisa to move in(Test of Love)
PlotSlide4
Lisa goes to Europe and gives letter to Alex to give to MattAlex sabotages Lisa and Matt’s relationshipMatt goes to New York for 2 years and meets RebeccaMatt comes back to Chicago and sees Lisa at a restaurantMatt starts to follow the trail for Lisa, finding Lisa’s compact in her hotelHe finds out that Lisa has a stalker.Slide5
Matt finds Lisa’s house, and places a note which Alex seesAlex sabotages this as wellHe sees Alex and sleeps with herMatt thinks Lisa is not in Chicago anymoreMatt wants to go to ChinaThat night, Luke and Matt go to Alex’s show
Matt goes to Lisa’s place looking for AlexAlex goes with Luke homeSlide6
Matt calls Luke the next dayMatt hangs up, and Lisa calls Luke and tells him that she wants to meet with MattMatt buys Alex shoes that are 8 ½ and they don’t fit Alex so Matt knows Lisa has been lyingSlide7
He leaves and meets up with LukeMatt goes with Luke into the restaurant, and Matt sees Alex there and realizes that she was lying this whole timeLuke, then, tells Matt to meet up with Lisa at 1500 hrs and that Matt should know whereMatt goes to Wicker Park, but he missed Lisa
He goes to the airport and he sees Lisa thereAlex calls Lisa and Rebecca interrupts Matt’s meetingSlide8
Matt tells Rebecca that he loves someone else, and they break upMatt goes over to Lisa, and Alex explains everything to Lisa over the phoneLisa hangs up, she criesMatt sees her crying, and slowly creeps up behind her, crying as wellLisa turns around and cries in happinessThey hug and kissSlide9Slide10
Matt and his fiancee are discussing the business deal to go to China.Matt goes to the bathroom and hears Lisa talking to someone which leads to a flashback When Matt sees Lisa for the first time.He gets a keycard to Lisa’s hotel room He sees the compact in the bathroom which leads to another flashback, which is when they first start to date
PlotSlide11
Matt is then is directed to Lisa’s apartment He finds out then that Lisa has a stalker named Daniel and Matt leaves a letter for Lisa.Matt then gets the courage to go into Lisa’s apartment.Then he realizes that someone else is in the apartment and the girl says that she is Lisa. Alex enters a flashback to the beginning of the movie. Slide12
This is where we learn that Alex isn’t who she says she isThen we learn that Alex liked Matt long before he met LisaThen Lisa, Matt, Alex, and Luke start calling each other.Matt buys Alex the same shoes he bought Lisa and realizes that Alex was lying the entire timeSlide13
Matt then starts to follow Alex.Matt finally realizes that Alex was the one who sabotaged his entire relationship with Lisa.Matt then goes to Wicker Park to meet LisaHe doesn’t find her there so he goes to the airport and finds Lisa. They embrace and kiss and the movie ends.Slide14
Wicker Park: A unique love story show faults in human nature regarding love.Greed Selfishness Desire/ lust and the things one will do for it.The structure helps develop the story in a way that is simple yet with a complex plot.Slide15
The color red: love, desire, memoryLisa a the dance studio (9:45)The shoes: truthThe compact: the bond of Lisa and AlexSplit screen: Matt’s inner thoughts and desires, contrasting opinion
MotifsSlide16Slide17
Mirrors: truthCompact, shoe store, bathroom etc.Flash lighting: epiphany/ revelationBlurred lighting: Stream of consciousness/ memory
Motifs (continued)Slide18
Lisa tells Alex to go meet Matt without knowing who he wasMatt goes to meet Lisa after seeing her through the cameraMatt puts the shoe on Lisa at the store and then again for Alex at her apartment.Matt consistently goes to Wicker Park to only meet Lisa
ParallelismSlide19
Matthew: Main character involved in love conundrum Lisa: Main love interestAlex: Object of confusion. Main character.Luke: Minor character, builds suspenseRebecca: Minor character and an obstacle for Matt’s obsessionDaniel: Helped Alex step into Lisa’s shoes
CharactersSlide20
Rebecca and Daniel’s relationship allow for the plot to thicken.Luke and Alex’s create suspense and interest within the story.SubplotsSlide21Slide22
Wicker Park was told from an objective point of view. It didn't focus only on one character, but on many characters in the film. The movie wasn't biased toward any one character and it was told from a kind of restricted point of view. Power PointSlide23
Throughout some of the movie we don't know as much as the characters know As the movie progresses, we start to learn what the characters know and then we learn more that what the characters themselves know. In the beginning we hear a girl talking on a phone in a restaurant and the audience doesn't know who that person is, but the main character, Matthew, does know who she is. Slide24
As the movie goes on we learn who the girl is and how the main character knows that person.This is the point in time when the audience has restricted knowledge, we only know what the main character knows. Slide25
Then as the movie progresses further, the audience starts to gain unrestricted knowledge, in the fact that we start to learn who all the characters are. The audience starts to learn who Alex is, and how she fits into the love story between Matt and Lisa. The audience knows this information, but Matt and Lisa don't. Slide26
When Alex is reversing her make-up to it shows who she really is. 1:02:57The entire scene when Luke, Matt, Alex, and Lisa were calling each other. 1:26:40
When Matt buys the shoes for Alex and learns that she isn't the person she says she is.1:34:40Important ScenesSlide27
4. When Luke and Matt go into the restaurant and Matt sees Alex there and realizes that Alex was lying the whole time
. 1:36:185. When Alex was talking to Lisa about Matt's handkerchief and Alex got all crazy about the handkerchief.1:07:00Slide28
The restaurant is the melting pot of all the characters throughout the movie. All of them were in the restaurant at least once in the movie. Wicker Park is the area where true love is expressed. It is where Alex, Matt, and Lisa can express their love. SettingSlide29
The motivation for the story is to present how love can make you do crazy things. We see this in Matt and Alex’s excessive stalking, and in Alex’s acts of tremendous jealousy. The movie brings to light of an enhanced mentality of human nature. Throughout the trials of misfortune that Matt dealt with, he eventually gets his happiness, leaving us with the film’s statement of “love can conquer all.”MotivationSlide30
The director shoots the movie in the present. He also shoots it at particular moments when something is about to happen for each character. These
moments pulls the movie back to the past for a deeper understanding of what is going on. Each of these flashbacks, the viewer discovers more about the personality, motivations, and desires of each character.Slide31
The director does this in order to make you think. He makes it so that when you watch it, you will be left in a clueless state, wondering what is actually going on. The mental exercise of fitting the scenes in chronological order and guessing how the gaps will be filled obscures the fact that we know very little about their relationship. Through this craving for explanations, you get sucked into the movie and more curious for what is to come.