Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan
1) Egoyan was born to Armenian parents in Egypt and immigrated to Toronto as a child.
2) Egoyan’s films typically investigate the processes of human memory and communication
via the mediation of technology (usually video).
3) Many of his films involve the themes of voyeurism and the dependence on technologies
to maintain relationships (sometimes with the deceased).
4)Mast and Kawin identify transience or the ephemeral and the fleeting nature of relationships as central
to Egoyan’s work.
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
His most acclaimed film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997) is about a lawyer (Ian Holm) who attempts to launch a class action lawsuit against a school district in the aftermath of a bus accident that kills most of the children in a small town in British Columbia. The film uses the classic fairy tale "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" to communicate the relationship between the characters in the film.
The following clip:
Is among the most memorable in the film. Holm's Mitchell Stephens describes the journey taking his daughter to the hospital after she is bitten by a spider. The story gains emotional power as we learn that Stephens's daughter Zoe has become a drug addict in adulthood.
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997):
The scene we saw for class Click Here
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