eden’s film blog

The short film begins in media res, encouraging dramatisation as soon as it starts. This creates tension and suspense. With the lack of knowledge that the audience is presented with, we have to engage with the action that grounds the story's setting and situation. There is also no dialogue throughout the film so the audience has to embrace the visuals. At first, we assume she is in a prison but then we are given clues (the gun and the barcode on the back of the main characters neck) that give implications of an alternate reality, adding to the suspense as we are unaware of what is happening or what is going to happen.  The sparsity of the room (in terms of its greys whites and blacks, little to no furniture etc) matches the sparsity of the music when we are introduced to the protagonist. The minimalistic music and setting create a feeling of ambiguity, which makes us empathise with the protagonist’s visible confusion.  The behaviours of the main character also add to the sense...

Call me by your name is a romance/drama film set in Italy in the summer of 1983. From the beginning of the movie we are shown elements of the warm, vibrant and lush setting. Italian countryside and architecture fills almost every scene, emphasising the beauty of the surroundings and the story. Romantic drama is a genre that explores the complex side of love. Usually, the plot centres on obstacle preventing on love between two people such as family disapproval or a forbidden love, however these issues are not prevalent in Call me by your name as throughout the movie there are instances where we are shown that Elio(the main character) is encouraged by his parents to spend time with Oliver(his love interest) so their love is not entirely forbidden, the obstacle is instead psychological restraint within both characters.  The film doesn’t define love and sexuality in the stringent  western definitions that we’re used to, it focuses on the raw emotional connection between characters...

In Pitch Black Heist, there is a scene where the heist is explained - we are shown how the alarm is triggered and introduced to the team (the father and son). We are shown a likeable criminal - the father, and a comedic relief character - the son. New difficulties were introduced in the scene where the heist fails. There is then a plot twist where the film implies elements of the drama genre - we realise that it's about a father and son's relationship and the son's sense of revenge. They therefore are unable to get away with any money. Also, we are not even shown the heist - its pitch black and we are only able to hear it - which is unusual for a heist so it conforms to the heist genre to some extent. The plot twist means it applies Steve Neal's theory 'genres are instances of repetition and difference' - where the repetition is the beginning of the movie and the difference is the plot twist at the end.