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Invisible Sound In The Film 'The Namesake'
Beige Pascua THEA 32
“The Namesake”

The Namesake is a film that has both visible and invisible sounds. The different sounds are used to portray different emotions in the film. In the beginning of the film we see Gogol’s father on a train when all of a sudden we hear the train screech but we do not see the actual action of the train getting into a wreck. This is what we call invisible sound, when you can hear a sound but not see the origin of where the sound is coming from.
We also hear invisible sounds of people biking, and we can significantly hear the rattling of their bike chains when the film starts to take place in America. In the beginning, the film takes place in India where we hear a woman singing but we do not see her, then

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