Opening scene The opening scene of Trainspotting is widely regarded to be one of the most iconic scenes in British movie history. It does a great job of showing you what to expect for the rest of the movie, jumping straight into explicit scenes. The music that plays throughout it while Renton reels off all of the things to 'choose' sets the fast pace and adds an action-based effect to the scene. We get to see all of the main characters here and one of the sub-plots of the movie (Renton trying to get off of heroin) is set. Most of the camera shots are close ups or mid shots in this scene as it is still trying to develop the characters and introduce them to the viewer. The lighting in the house is very dark and miserable. This directly contradicts the light from the previous scene of being outside, and it also contradicts the music which is still playing in the background. This creates a strange effect on the audience which makes them not too disturbed or sad by the scene, d...
We need to talk about Kevin is a film released in 2011. It was directed by Lynne Ramsay who had previously made the short film, 'Gasman'. The film was released under BBC films with a budget of 7 million dollars. The film profited with a box office of 10.8 million dollars. The film can fit under both the thriller genre and the drama genre. With themes of betrayal, jealousy, relationships, love, violence, mental health, parenting and isolation, the film is rather dark and goes into a few topics which others would not go into. The film is about a woman named Eva (played by Tilda Swinton), who seems to have an enjoyable, active life. This changes when she is pregnant and starts to evidently become depressed. The situation grows worse when the baby is born, and shows clear signs of evilness from then on. The opening scene of the movie shows Eva enjoying herself in some kind of tomato festival. It is here that we start to see the importance of the use of colour throughout the mo...
Remember Me is an underrated gem. It was released in 2010 with Alan Coulter the person directing it. Robert Pattinson plays the protagonist character-Tyler Hawkins. The second biggest character in the movie-Ally Craig is played by Australian actress, Emilie de Ravin. Remember Me is a very well made movie and it made me care about the characters and be invested in what I'm watching. What more can you ask for from a movie? Robert Pattinson faces a lot of criticism for his performance as 'Edward Cullen' in Twilight. People called the movie 'cringe', 'cheesy'...and just generally 'bad'. However, I was pleasantly surprised that Pattinson's performance was a huge step up from what he did in Twilight. I feel that in Twilight, he wasn't given enough creative freedom to use his full skillset of acting skills because of the character that he played. Of course, this commonly happens with movies that are based off of books. In Remember Me, Pattinson pl...
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