"Killing a Mockingbird" is a movie that contains a lot of court scenes. What is different from other general movies of this kind is that this movie is mostly shot from the perspective of children. In this article, I chose the scene in which a mob appeared in front of the prison and confronted the lawyer Vinci who was guarding outside the prison on the eve of the trial, trying to analyze the implications and potential effects of lighting and shooting angles on the audience's feelings.
At 01:01:10 in the film, the children saw Vinci sitting in front of the prison, ran forward anxiously, stopped in front of a bush some distance from their father, and observed his father's behavior. . At this time, the film first gave a close-up shot of the children watching nervously in front of the bushes, and then gave a long-range shot of the prison gate in the next second, implying that the shots of the father at this time and thereafter are shown from the perspective of the children. This perspective does not allow the audience to see the details of the father’s movements, but in the large perspective showing the prison entrance, all areas of the picture are not lit, only the father in the center of the picture is reading under a small bright lamp. , Thinking, gives people a strong hint that lawyers are in this dark and hostile social environment and insist on being a guardian of the truth.
The timeline moved back again, and there were close-up shots of my father's reading and close-up shots of confronting the mob. These shots were all taken from bottom to top. To discuss the reasons, one is to make the audience observe the lawyer from the perspective of the child again, and again to imply that the lawyer’s picture constitutes the image of the father in the eyes of the child; The greatness that persists in the dark.
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