The film "Footprints" continued his consistent style, showing the distance between people's psychology in the form of an indoor drama. The scenes in the film can be said to be fixed at Andrew's home. As a viewer, he will not find the film boring, even if the scene is single, thanks to the director's best scene scheduling.
The film is about a talented horror writer who has his own social status. But he grapples with his wife's affair with a young hairdresser (who calls himself an actor) and hatches a complicated plan of revenge.
At the beginning of the film, there is the sound of the keyboard constantly tapping, and the music at this time plays a role in expression. The picture gradually unfolds under the monitoring of the novelist. Milo's every move is under Andrew's control, and he has already planned all this. , waiting for Milo's arrival at any time. This has a lot to do with his profession. As a horror crime novelist, he is very angry and helpless about his wife's cheating, so when Milo entered his house, every word he said was planned. , and Milo fell into his trap step by step. So in the first kill, Andrew occupies the center of the picture. The second time when Milo pretended to be the detective, he kept pressing Andrew, and the positions of the two naturally changed.
When showing the dialogue between the two people in the film, the back shot is often used to explain the tense and hostile relationship between the two. The conflict between the two was caused by Maggie's derailment, but Maggie did not appear from the beginning to the end of the film. The director cleverly used the dress Maggie was wearing to represent Maggie, and used the depth of field lens to express the relationship between the three people. A relationship, but Maggie's dress has always been in the background, indicating that Maggie is only one point of their conflict, and the more conflict is the war between two men, the pursuit of money by an out-of-date actor, the novel A mentality of wanting to manipulate others. The continuation of this contradiction is the catharsis of the inner feelings between the two characters.
I just found out that the recently released "Cinderella" is also Branagh's work. To be honest, it's still quite shocking. The route the director took before was a stage play. Can't get in touch with the film. The film is adapted from the original film in 1972. Generally speaking, it still has the effect of a stage play to the audience. The director and screenwriter of the film are very good at this aspect. Of course, they also succeeded.
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