Wednesday, 3 March 2010

In this scene we see the two young boys tourchering a woman, treating it as if it is a game show by letting her have a question to answer but with the prize of choosing her own way of dieing. The boys end rewinding it after she grabs the gun and shoot one of the boys. after they rewind it it starts again.
The editing in this scene is very interesting.part way through it shows the character playing mind games to shock us by rewinding it to trick us into thinking that there is something wrong with the film. It shows us first what we would want to happen in the film but then rewinds and shows what really happens which gives the effect of it not being real. this editing technique is clever and shocking, dissorientating the audience and forcing us to sympathise whith the victim. the rest of the scene is edited in a very simple way to create a sense of realism. this makes the rewind sequence all the more powerfull.
There is a very patranising tone in the charcters voice as he talks to the victim. He is very calm and does not shout or raise his voice which makes the audience feel agravated because they would expect him to be shouting at her but this is tourchering her by him not being agressive. In the scene there is no background music in it to intensify the audiences emotional response and this is important because we have learnt from other hollwood horrors that music will trigger our emotional response. here the drama unfolds without any need for gimmicy music because the director wants us to experience real and raw emotion.

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