LOLA- CINEMATOGRAPHY ANALYSIS

Requiem for a dream- Film Analysis

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Requiem For A Dream

This scene starts with walking of Marion who worked as prostitute as a hidden job. Regret is a dominant feeling in this scene, so that light, costumes, music, shot etc. are based on showing them. 

The music at the background, which is a score of the film “Lux Aeterna” starts with the walking of Marion. It creates tension because at the scenes that audience hears this score creates tension and they know that something goes wrong. The shot is close up as a reason of showing the importance of her feelings and creating a regretful environment. She didn’t look the camera directly; she is keeping her eyes away from the camera like a child that did something bad. She is shameful of what did she done. The elevator’s light is flickering. It represent something is broken and goes wrong with her and her situation. Also, the color of the light is blue which is dominant color of the movie. The color blue is a great significance for depression and sadness. After, she goes out from the elevator and the building, flickering light effect continues with lightning. It displays that she can’t leave the regrets and secrets behind. They keep following her and it becomes her nature.  Another significance symbol of regret and shame are throwing up part of the scene. She knows that she did a wrong thing and even disgusted from herself, but it is a result of obsession of drugs.  It is connected with the upcoming scene, her shameful action related with Sara’s make-up scene. She is too old for doing that kind of a make-up, but is a reason of her obsession of being in the show, TV. She prepared for herself from the call till the end of the movie like this. Her make-up is shameful for her age. Also, she didn’t do her make-up properly. In the next scene, Marion comes to the house while the flickering light continues from the TV’s light. Harry is wearing a white t-shirt which represents that he is innocent in this situation because he is waiting for her girlfriend to come home while she is being prostitute.  

The main characters that are Marion and Harry placed as right and left sides to show distance and coldness in their relationship. The bars at the background show that they are stuck in vicious circle of their obsession.  The ful-2-shot, the bars and the fragment put the character in a prison environment. Again the lights are cold, blue and flickering because of TV. Also, TV is a requiring and important motif because it represents obsession of Harry’s mother and gives the flickering light affect in the scene. 

With a Soviet Montage technique of connection to the mother of Tyron and then Tyrone is showing feeling of regret. The medium long shot and the camera movement, zoom out, inform the reader about Tyrone’s situation and trouble. He is looking  at the picture of her mother deeply. As the camera moves farther, the audience gets the feeling better. He is sitting right side of the bed naked. Nakedness is a symbol of being innocent, defenseless and regret. He is feeling not protected because of he didn’t keep his promises. Also, the half of the bed is clean and the other part is untidy, like his thoughts. He feels regret because of the entire thing that he done but in the other hand he is addicted to it.  This scene is open frame because of the window, but he is sitting far away from the window. So, the distance between the window and him show that he is far from escaping his addiction. Also, even in the daytime, the lights are open as a reason of chance of escape is so low; he needs some sort of a help and support for it. One of the light’s colors is yellow the other one is white, which represents the challenges and differences in Tyrone. He turns back and looks out side of the window to think about the change as escaping. The right sides of the frame, the bars are still seen in the scene to impose the feeling of being trapped in drug. He doesn’t have any way to go out other than the window; he doesn’t have any solution to solve his trouble other than the healing.

    The scene where Sara is doing her make-up is juxtaposed right after the scene where Tyrone is looking at a picture of his mother. The reason for that is the mother-son relationship where Freud explains as ‘a classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedious complex which occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development, where a boy’s decisive psychosexual experience is the Oedips complex-his son-father competition and for possession of mother. So while Tyrone is in his room looking at her picture, he is seeking the love of her mother. In contrast Sara has nothing to do with her son in the next scene, and this is obscene. This is a close up, because the feeling of Sara is important to demonstrate at that moment. She is in the middle of the scene and other prompts in the background are not clearly visible. This states her significance in the film. She has a clown like make up on, and this reveals the fact that her make-up is wrong along with everything else in the film. The use of red on her lips and on her dress symbolizes energy and danger; energy being the thing she has at that moment, and danger is the thing that she consists for herself. Also the use of superimposition gives a drunk like feeling which indicates that Sara is not herself. She is supposed to be a fine mother but she actually is a women with obsessions and disorders. The upcoming scene is a high angle wide shot. Combining this, with the fact that the character takes too little space in the scene, indicates that she is lost. The soft, insufficient lighting implies darkness. The open door of the closet and the messy bed indicates the disorder in Sara’s life. Additionally, the use of superimposition shows that she is delusional.