Thursday, 18 October 2012

He loves me He loves me not scene deconstruction #3


1:26:00 – 1:32:33

Sound
  • Orchestral violin music
  • Cuts when she comes up stairs - Loic's shock to see her, first encounter after discovering the truth 
  • Abrupt with answers 
  • ‘will you take me with you?’ - Angelique's deluded mind set 
  • ‘no. I am taking you nowhere’ - harsh, emphasise on 'you nowhere'
  • ‘I don’t get it’ - Angelique's genuine confusion
  • ‘our trip to Florence? Our song?’ - believes the fiction of her imagination is real
  • ‘we planned nothing… we’ve never been together, never will be’ - Loic is reinforcing that it has all been some great delusion of her mind 
  • ‘you dreamt it all.. now it’s over’ - finalising that this is the end which reacts badly with Angelique who then acts out 
  • Operatic female voice, tinkling music
  • Reverberated  thud of object hitting head
  • Falling down the stairs is muffled – from Angelique’s perspective – clouded mind
  • People rush to his aid, faint voices – still in Angelique distant warped vision
  • Police sirens
  • Voiceover - sounds like a judge sentencing her for her actions 
  • ‘Angelique L was diagnosed as sick unanswerable for her actions, the accused suffers from intense erotomania’
  • ‘Angelique L should be confined to a psychiatric home’
  • L-O-V-E has become theme of film ‘their song’ almost contradicts and contrasts the reality
  • Heart monitor bleeps
  • Screaming in distress ‘let me out of here’ contrasting with the romantic song
  • L-O-V-E fades out slowly and gradually as it leads into Angelique speaking
  • ‘there’s a world in my head, an unreal world in it Loic loves me and protects me in it he is always by my side now I know it doesn’t exist that was an illusion, the fruit of my imagination’ - establishing Angelique's thought process
  • ‘we all dream of a great love affair, I just dreamt a bit harder’
  •  ‘if you keep taking your medication, you’ll be fine’ - Doctor words almost pre-empts ending 
  • Scene gets really quiet almost heightens shock and allows the audience to make their comments – intensifies situation

Mise en scene
  • He has moved all his stuff out of his office
  • Blunt, heavy sculpture she strikes his skull
  • Heart graph artwork
  • Things scattered down the stairs
  • Handcuffed
  • Police van
  • Hospital room surrounded by machines  serious critical condition
  • White clean, clinical hallway
  • White coats – doctors, clinical
  • Strapped to bed – liability, dangerous
  • Wheelchair – serious damage
  • Clean , white room – drab existence compared to colourful scenes previous
  • Girl on swing – happy family life
  • Loic has walking stick
  • Children’s toys
  • Hair has grown showing time has passed
  • Empty room
  • Collage of Loic made from pills she has not taken
  • Carries away a small bag – collection of her things of her time there
  • Long, clean corridor opposite end than when she was coming in
 Camera angles
  • Tracking shot of Loic and Angelique’s conversation
  • Close up of Angelique and Loic’s face 
  • Extreme close up of her face
  • Extreme close up of the striking of the head, buckling of his knees and his face passed out
  • Low angle shot looking up at Angelique
  • Camera emulates Loic’s action of falling down the stairs
  • High angle of Loic at the bottom of the stairs – Angelique’s view
  • Long shot of police van driving away
  • Close up of medical heartbeat graphs
  • Long shot of Angelique being walked down the corridor she then turns and runs at camera
  • Extreme close up of Loic waking up from comatosed state
  • Isolated shot of wheelchair – showing his medical condition
  • Pan over from wheelchair to Loic being helped out of bed
  • Pan continues to Angelique’s room – shows their separate recoveries simultaneously
  • Close up of Loic and his wife’s feet and crutches – learning to walk again, Angelique caused physical damage as well as emotional
  • Close up zoom of Angelique falling to sleep when being tested on
  • Camera slightly titls up to follow girl on swing
  • Long shot of Loic’s happy family
  • Head and shoulders shot of Angelique against white background – sole focus is her
  • Over the shoulder shot
  • Long shot of her walking down the same corridor we saw earlier when she was being brought in
  • Close up and extreme close ups of pills Angelique used to form another collage of Loic behind her storage cupboard

Editing
  • When Angelique strikes Loic the editing has a hazy, blurry filter so reflects her mind set
  • Slow motion when she strikes him creates dramatic effect
  • Camera acts as Loic falling as it stays focussed on Angelique however it slowly spirals backwards down the stairs to give the impression of him tumbling down the staircase
  •  Cuts between Loic and Angelique
  • parallels and contrasts being made between Loic and Angelique  e.g. both confined to a hospital both scenes similar with white, bare, clinical feel however contrasted as when she is strapped down to a bed he is being helped out of one
  • again similar images are being shown to drawn comparisons and differences between their circumstances – e.g. Loic’s feet are shown as he learns to walk again and this then cuts to a shot of Angelique’s feet as she is laying in a hospital bed
  • Constant similar situations are used to merge the two divided scenarios the characters are in
  • Jump cuts as transitions
  • Fades to black and a final frame of words of a real life erotomanic confined for over 50
Amy Freeman

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