Carol Movie Analysis: Coming into Focus

Todd Haynes’s Carol (2015) tracks the coming-into-focus of Therese and the woman she loves through her twofold romantic and artistic awakening. This coming-into-focus is also a calling-into-focus of cinematic ways of looking that attend to socially marginalized individuals with open-minded compassion.
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Filmography:
--Carol (Todd Haynes, Killer Films, 2015).
--“Rooney Mara,” Carol DVD special feature.
Texts:
--Cocozza, Paula. ‘How Patricia Highsmith’s Carol became a film: “Lesbianism is not an issue. It’s a state of normal”’, The Guardian, 2015.
--Gilman, Sander L. ‘Black bodies, white bodies: Toward an iconography of female sexuality in late nineteenth-century art, medicine, and literature’, Critical Inquiry, 12:1, pp. 204-42, 1985.
--Love, Heather. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, Harvard UP, 2007.
--Metz, Walter. ‘Far from toy trains’, Film Criticism, 40:3, pp. 1-4, 2016.
--Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, NYU Press, 2009.
[adapted from the original publication in Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, 5.1]

[@vokkm9bile548]

The film is masterpiece, loved the music , Cate's performance is mindblowing!

[@ciudadanakane8743]

this movie is like a poem maze, even the sewer grate at the beginning has a meaning, a masterpiece.

[@cynd.9029]

Damn this was a detailed essay, absolutely loved it 👌🏽

[@sophiaq3820]

it’s was the best essay on carol i’ve seen! you ate this up

[@rhyfeddu]

I've watched "Carol" a dozen times at least, and you still pointed out things I'd missed or hadn't considered. You gave me a lot to ponder. And great timing for me, as I'll be watching it soon again as my own personal annual Christmas movie. 😏 Thanks for your insights!

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Having lived this story, I can say this movie hit all the emotions that come with. Your analysis was insightful and makes me appreciate it even more. Blanchett truly an angel flung from space 💞💜💞💜

[@casckettfriki]

Amazing movie full of intense and beaitiful feelings. Both Rooney and Cate were amazing. The deserved the oscar for this, in my opinion. And the fact that neither Tod nor the movie were nominated it's acomplete nonsense. Anyway, I still haven't red a bad coment about the movie so...

[@TeresaLevy]

Thank you very much for your review, allowing for a deep analysis of the film.

[@violetgoesshopping]

you should have way more subs! excellent analysis and diction and good pacing and choice of clips

[@milaledova9856]

I LOVE YOUR ANALYSIS

[@knives4cash]

7:49 I have glued my eyeball to my 720p file of Carol and gone frame by frame. I can't see the boy having Down's Syndrome. How do you know the character has Down's Syndrome, or did the actor playing that boy have Down's Syndrome?

[@emillion4470]

So what was in the telegram, who sent it and how did they know where to reach Carol?

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Carol left her gloves in the department store where Therese was working. She had just given her address to have a train set sent to her for her daughter for Christmas so Therese sent them back. Carol called the store to thank her and offered to take her to dinner

[@USAFmedicVET]

Excellent question!

[@realitnimaklermariepospisi4957]

Krásný film, viděla jsem jej 150 krát.

[@USAFmedicVET]

This OVER analysis of a beautiful film is ridiculous! Read the book!

[@zeldasmith6154]

Commentator has a very irritating voice.

[@Oliver69420.]

you don’t need to overpronounce every syllable like that lol