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
- 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
