The author talks about some personal understanding of apartment plot of films in the article. She points out that as a genre, apartment plots in films are not only settings presented as a background, but also a part of narrative, it can show characters’ identity like gender, race, ethnicity and class. From the opposite part of view it makes the film logical, making characters’ behaviors reasonable. A successful apartment plot may let audience experience immersive entertainment. With the film plot going further, the audiences are stepping inside the film and thus the apartment will offer them a sense of familiarity.

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In the introduction to apartment plot, Pamela Wojcik mentioned the relationship between apartment plot genre, which I understand as using apartment space storytelling or character setting, and the use of it as a critical genre to intersect with other genre. The space of apartment represent the experience, lifestyle and value of a character or the tone that a movie tried to set. One film that I found using apartment plot after I read the essay was Léon: The Professional. The two characters were living as neighbours in a poverty region of little Italy in New York. The setting of  apartment

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“The apartment plot can lay out a larger urban space before narrowing to focus on the apartment as a microcosm of the city. “It represents the apartment plot can be understood as an urban gaze like an idiom “Child is father of the man”. Due to the tenants with different genders, rates, ethnicities and classes, the apartment is complex. It reminds me a television series named Friends which mainly shot inside the apartment, tell us the stories between the tenants. Conflicts would be created through encounter and can cause new things based on reaction between people.The article also proposes the

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The ideal meaing about teh space define on the activity of individudual. The Quote “spaces is a praticed place” represent that those places that people live is based on people’s life style. Those native people have deep impact on the plcease that each region has their own unique place. Even those urban buildings have similarities, each places seems different due to those people’s lifestyle. They different way people designed the city also impact on the urban area. It is because those urban cities usually designed by people, which is different from the ancient places, which those planned cities are usually

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Every story is a travel story, a spatial practice. It’s interesting how Michel takes the poetry of writing as an example, where the written alphabets are the spaces creation, via travel, whilst the book is then the place created. But morphologically, the organisation a written article to a spatial travelling differs, their journeys and experience maybe coherent and interfering, but at its base, they’re merely at the same modem. Michel also highlights the idea of “Space is a practiced place”. There’s a distancing between the idea of geometrical places as well as spaces created through anthropology. This reminds me of

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This article concentrates on an analysis of the apartment plot, with its brief insights on the relation of the space and film being highly profound. A place as an apartment serves the function of social space since space can shape one’s “experience, worldview and opportunity”. In this article, the apartment plot regarded as a specific genre goes beyond the conventional rule of being a background setting. However, it motivates actions and practices – “works in terms of encounter and porousness or produces a philosophy of urbanism by imaging the urban itself”. Not only it brings the permeability that satisfies voyeurism

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