A Well Lighted Place

Authors Note:

This is two short responses to the story a well lighted place. The first response talked about the old waiter and the young waiter and what they represent and what the cafe represents and the second one is in response to how the movie is different from the story.

First Response:

The old waiter represents tradition and respect for the older more lonely people where the young waiter is a eager person that just wants to get out into the world and do something but doesn’t know the heritage in which the world comes from. I café is a place where the old man comes because he is lonely so he doesn't want to go home and face the loneliness and darkness of laying on a bed in a quiet dark room.

Second Response:

The movie was very different than i imagined it. Even thought it was obvious that the cafe was going to be a clean well lighted place based of its name I was still picturing it being a dark and airy cafe.  I think I thought this because In the beginning they said he was sitting with a shadow from the leaves on his face and shadows are dark so that put a dark looking scene into my head right away. Another thing that surprised me was the way the cafe looked, I was expecting more of a modern looking cafe with clean lines in the design of the building, I also thought the building would of had large windows to look through because they said they saw the solider and the women walk by so I was assuming they were looking out of a large window.

Some thing that added the affect of everyone there other than the young waitress being lonely is the music and the lighting. The music in the beginning was sad and depressing and just a little bit off key so that put a sad thought in your mind right away. Also it is night time so it is dark outside and they show the outside of the building and it is the only building they show that is open but it looks a little run down on the outside. If they would have started this scene in the day time and they were playing a song by Katty Perry or The Wanted it would have set a very different mood.