Put aside the plot and just talk about the composition

Katheryn 2022-01-20 08:02:58

Aside from the controversial plot, I found that the director deliberately arranged the first half of the film.

For example, the following screenshots: The female protagonist Bitlitz is in the middle of the screen, with his back to the camera, out of focus. On both sides are white people who are more than half a head taller than her, really focused. It makes people feel the oppressive feeling of racial discrimination.

Even if the heroine turns to face the camera, it is also a huge gap caused by the obvious height difference.

Several characters are walking in the courtyard, using the panorama. The whites were in hordes, tall and well-dressed. The heroine is single, short and plainly dressed. The gap between the two is huge and the contrast is obvious.

Shooting the heroine alone, shooting at a depression angle, shows the heroine's shortness and low social status.

Even when shooting the heroine from a flat angle, her eyes are upward

This kind of composition is to tell the story in the language of the picture. I think the first half is very well told, which makes me full of expectations, but how did it turn into resisting the demolition of developers and animal protectionists to save the planet?

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Extended Reading
  • Ethel 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    The 72/100 female protagonist once again demonstrated the superiority of the film in a specific genre.

  • Richmond 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    The director made a particularly brutal scene where people from different classes meet. A lot of the unresolved contradictions are because we only chose the Casey point of view, not the Beatriz point of view. Actually no one is wrong. It's wrong not to meet. Goat has a moral, goats can only be killed, never to be killed. It is worth pondering that physical therapists maintain equality and love in a very impersonal way, while Doug and others adhere to cruel survival laws under a sleek appearance. Humans are really contradictory.

Beatriz at Dinner quotes

  • Beatriz: All tears flow from the same source.

  • Beatriz: You think killing is hard? Try healing. You can break something in two seconds. But it can take forever to fix it.