In this movie, we have to concentrate on using the lights. When the woman and the man meet in her house in the first time, the light in place was very bright. There was no shadow. However they started to plan to make her husband died, the scenes in the movie have more shadows than the first of the movie. Sometimes shadow cover the man’s half face and the sunlight and shadow from the window make stripes on his back. Finally in the last scene, when the woman and the man shot each other, we cannot recognize their face well because shadow covers the most of their face and place of the movie. This effective using of lights and shadow can express the story’s explanation and also can express character’s emotion and make audience to feel tension.
When I looking this movie in the class, I concentrated on the camera’s motion. I thought that the camera follows character’s motion. For example, when the man open the door and get in to the room, the camera located behind the man and follow him continuously. Therefore the scene has not detached each other.
The theme of the movie is that the dark desire of the man can come up from just human itself not devil face. When we choose the easier way to get something, we can cross a line between goodness and weakness and after this we can choose devil road easier than before.
Interesting comments, Angela. Maybe most interesting are the ideas about the film's themes. One could look a bit more closely at the rationale Walter gives for going along with Phyllis's plan and how the visuals portray the "good" path he could have chosen versus the path he took.
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