March 14

The scene That I would like to speak about is the very beginning where the children singing “just you wait a little while, The nasty man in black will come” and the lady yells over the balcony for them to stop singing that awful song. A short while later the girls start singing again. It becomes apparent that “the black man” was real and he was a murdered, we see this in the later seen where the lady complains to her neighbor that she can’t get the kids to stop singing about the murderer.  I interpret this scene as “kids being kids” they live life be curiously and don’t have a worry in the world. They find an amusement to anything. We can see this on the next scene where the girl is bouncing a ball on the bounty letter for “the murderer”. To me the bounty represented a something evil and bad, but the girl bouncing the ball expressed a sense of innocent even when the girl told the man who we could only see in shadows her name. I could only keep telling myself throughout this seen “haven’t your parents told you not to speak to strangers”.