Photographic Analysis of Road to Perdition (Spoilers)

Rubie 2022-03-18 09:01:03

I have to write a short analysis of cinematography every week in my film class. I think the cinematography of this film is particularly awesome, so I wrote a long article


Road to Perdition is one of the best film I've watched in terms of cinematography with its amazing composition, subtle lighting and various techniques. Without further ado, I will start analysis some of the scenes in the film.
We are presented many different compositions right away in the first 2 minutes of film (note I will sometimes group different scenes based on their characteristics, so they may not be in time sequence) :

too lazy to repeat the texture, look here: http://blog.renren.com/blog/bp/Q7uge_QFqg

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Extended Reading

Road to Perdition quotes

  • Maguire: Smile.

  • [last lines]

    Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.