... genuinity of the traditional with the pretentious, consumerist superficiality of the modern. The 'garden party' sequence begins with a visitor to the Arpel household, as the greengrocer's aged, coughing pickup truck pulls up outside the front gate. We are exposed to an almost proportionately perfectionist shot - where we see a clean, grayscale, modern home occupying the top left of the frame, a dusty, colourful, old pickup truck the bottom right, and a fence the central barrier between them. The contrasting dissonance between the two areas of the frame is symbolic of the differences between modernity and traditionality, and maintains a fascinated gaze from the viewer. As Friedberg discussed, "the tourist simultaneously embodies both a position of presence and absence, or here and elsewhere, of avowing one's curiosity and disavowing one's daily life", and "tourism provides an escape from boundaries... it legitimates the transgression of one's static, stable or fixed ...

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