Close Reading 1


In A Close Shave there are many elements expressed in the film. The title correlates with the fact that there is a sheep put through a machine that trims away most of its wool and leaves him smaller than the others. 
The plot is shown that they live in a small house in the city and wallice and gromit clean windows for a living. The motif is the sheep and the fact that they keep turning up when they were suppose to be taken away. 
The characterization is that wallice and gromit are a constant in the entire film and make it come together when their conflicts are either compromised or solved.
 Most of the scenes are fairly similar throughout the storyline, and they appear at both the beginning and end of the film. In the sets the locations were in a small countryside town. It was filmed in a studio for stop motion.

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