In many ways, Pillow Book can read the paradigm of a hybrid film making:* The film works almost like an opera or the theater made with digital technology and film of the historical and current "point in the film" stories at the same time.
* Greenaway sees the film as the combination of the final platform: using film as a conceptual support, which mixes all genres, and retains the "high tech" and "low tech" techniques visible in the film.
* Several stories interweave history, memory, past and present cultural identity and sexual
* Using digital editing, "Picture in Picture," the narrative frameworks to cut through several time points of view, memory and simultaneous camera views of history
Shock Value * naked on the edge of eroticism and desexualization - more naked boys and girls in the movie.
* Conventions black and white and color to the symbolic associations
* Text, writing, written in the body and image in a film and moving images
* Traditional music, historical and contemporary images and encode the visual narrative
* The cultural significance of male and female body, and using the body as an average vehicle, the two naked body as it does in culture, the sexualized body, body-sexualized body as a writing surface , encryption of messages.
* Write the body becomes erotic, seduction, a personal fetish, a complex issue and ways to take revenge.
* Give your body that seduction is a form of revenge against the gay editor: deemed to have betrayed the father Nagiko and took her current boyfriend, Jerome. Calligraphy on the body as a hand of love.
* Find a calligraphy artist-lover is an attempt at intercourse extreme. Cancel genre writer and who wrote: "Who has more power - the author, or one that uses the body to seduce and to be written?
* Cultural metaphor resonates with the deepest of your soul, externalized in writing, speech and mind, "the Word became flesh."
