I personally understand that Claude is a whistleblower.
Every frame of a great film is precious. I believe that every character, every action, language and expression arranged by the director points directly to the answer. Personal understanding of the director's arrangement of Claude's characters, from micro-expressions, subconscious reactions, and language, indirectly tells us that Claude is an informer.
on micro expressions. At the beginning of the two-hour conversation between the warden and Claude, the warden told him that your wife has withdrawn the case. After Claude heard it, he immediately turned from cloudy to sunny, and quickly smiled. But in an instant, I heard the warden say that the time is uncertain, it may be tomorrow or a few days later. The smile on his face disappeared immediately, his eyes looked down, lost in thought. The warden immediately asked, what do you seem to be thinking, and what can I do to help you. At this moment, Claude must be carefully considering whether to withdraw the lawsuit or escape from prison in his thoughts from clear to cloudy. For him personally, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
subconscious reaction. By the time Claude was transferred to the four-person prison, he was called out three times. The first time was to get things. When he came back with a box of things, Claude silently walked to the wall of the house with his head down, put down the things, and started talking. The second time I was called out was a lover meeting. When he came back, he went to the wrong room, and after the warden came forward to solve it, he also silently walked into the room, sat down, and then began to speak. The third time he was called out to talk to the warden for 2 hours and came back. Claude took off his clothes as soon as he entered the door, and said to everyone, my wife has withdrawn the lawsuit, do you believe it, and after sitting down, he asked the people around him for the second time, do you believe it? In such a stark contrast of entering the door three times, Claude seems to be covering up something, eager to share his personal privacy with everyone, probably to cover up the panic after the whistleblower.
Linguistically. When the lover visited the prison, he had already explained the plot that he would stay for about a year. After being interviewed by the warden for 2 hours, in the conversation with the inmates, he told everyone that even if the case was withdrawn, he would stay for 5 years. Such a lie is probably to ask the inmates to believe him. Even if my wife withdraws the lawsuit, I have no hope, and I will still go with you. Another point is that when Claude and his cellmates got through the last wall, lifted the manhole cover, and looked out, Claude said, we could almost get into a taxi. This kind of language arrangement is definitely telling everyone that he is such a person who forgets his own interests, so it is not surprising that he can inform.
In addition to the above three points arranged in the character performance, the following points in the plot arrangement also show that Claude is an informer. Not a single shot is for Claude during the digging of the last wall of the sewer, and there are no scenes of him laboring in the pair. Included in the shot of a group of four, Claude is also absent. Another episode is when four people hit a plumber who stole something, and all four of them took action. All that the camera scans is Claude's fearful and nervous facial expression. Obviously, he is out of sync with the four, has no rhythm, and has no tacit understanding. This arrangement is probably to pave the way for Claude to inform. Another scenario is that during the 2 hours of the conversation, the floor wiper changed from kneeling to standing, and in the middle, the warden called the prison guard. One of these arrangements is to tell everyone that the conversation will take a long time, and the other is One point is that the head of the prison is probably discussing with the prison guards what to do with the jailbreakers.
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