Clowns vs. Theorists

I found all the works expressing either professionalism or amateurism or both and all works expressing some form of comedy. In terms of the Freudian language of jokes, Keaton's "The Boat" takes on the form of playful judgement, July's "The Amateurist" takes on the form of bringing something forward that is hidden, and Ben-Ner's "Moby Dick" takes on the form of the sense in nonsense. I call "The Boat" playful judgement because Keaton's character has to make decisions because of the problems he creates for himself. He ends up coming up with the worst solutions for the problems he encounters (an example would be the pancake covering the hole in the boat). Throughout "The Amateurist" we get a sense of something that is hidden and is about to be revealed. It could be because of the uneasiness in her voice, the music, or the fact that the person in the television screen was played by the same person talking about the person in the television screen. Because of this it hints to the fact that maybe the professional talking was once that person in the screen or is that same person in that screen in the way that the person in the screen is all the internal desires and feelings of the professional outside the screen. Another hint to that proposal is the fact that there is a black diamond in the background of the foreground. That black diamond shape is repeated in a paradigm in the background of what is in the television screen, meaning they are in the same room. Ben-Ner's "Moby Dick" takes on the form of sense in nonsense because throughout the film we see clips of random shots. Like in the beginning where he holds his daughter up, her face into the camera and the shot of him climbing up a ladder and falling. All the shots with the complete white wall in the background seem out of place and that could because he was experimenting. Either way we see the story line progress through the shots in the kitchen (the sense) mixed with these random shots of him doing something against a complete white background (the nonsense), altogether making a funny film. Each film uses a different type of joke to make their film hilarious.