Michael Haneke 's 'Cache ' is a suspense thriller that creates angst and apprehension within the at-home viewer, and leads to their stiff and strained state of mind throughout. It follows the story of a married couple who are menaced by a series of surveillance tapes left in the exterior of their residence from an anonymous source. The mystery, of course, involves the identity of the person or persons sending the videos which disrupt the bourgeois routine of a Parisian family. The film explores what happens when educated member of the Parisian elite (Georges Laurent) is confronted with a traumatic event from his childhood. This film is great at eliciting emotion and ultimately creating suspense among its audience. It does so in a way in which …show more content…
From this establishing shot, a number of notable features and hallmarks of the film contributed to the creation of suspense. The films use of VHS here, as opposed to HD, conveys the subject here in a pragmatic fashion. It appears as more of a documentary than a fiction story from the outset. A defining characteristic of this CCTV aesthetic is its poor image quality. Haneke’s decision to use digital cameras for the whole of Caché replicates this low-tech style. This combined with the film 's natural sounds of chirping birds, murmurs and street sounds and lack of music proved the film 's attention to the creation of a realistic picture. We are constantly being converted to a realist agenda by the film 's use of natural lighting as much as it can (excluding outdoor scenes), creating a naturalist piece. It is displayed that we cannot trust the image as a guarantor of truth as we are shown that it is, in fact, Georges and Anne reviewing this surveillance themselves in their living area. The verbal projection of Georges’s and Anne’s conversation over previously filmed surveillance footage in the first scene both undoes temporal consistency, overlaying present sound onto past image, and also suggests their lack of internal coherence. This …show more content…
The last scene, very subtly, shows Pierrot interacting with Majid 's son, suggesting that they plotted the whole thing. Even at our most attentive, when things are directly in front of our eyes, it displays how easy it is to miss life 's subtle giveaways. in a larger context, one may wonder if this a call to both France and Algeria to deal with the past and move forward together. The simplicity of the dialogue and surface plot serves as only a shallow reflection of life atop a much deeper and mired tale further complicated by the perplexing emotions of guilt, shame and regret. The fact that the film ends with no definite conclusion only further facilitates the already dominant sense of disorientation within the plot. The viewer is left without anyone to trust; isolated and without a figure or villain to point the blame at. Through an, at first, simple but increasing complex plot, submerged in hidden meanings and The luxury of a resolution is withheld from us, leaving us to hang in
Both of the protagonists endure massive shifts in character that are induced by violent acts. Their first act of murder is what begins this vicious cycle and with the introduction of heavy influences, their characters dramatically change for the worst. As the protagonists enter this endless spiral, they become trapped with no point
The book had a dull plot, witless characters, and a predictable ending after the third chapter. 7 Having taken down the license number and now following the car, the detective was ready to close in on the murderer. 8 Sometimes I feel as though l 'm badgered by my boss, ignored by my husband, and abandoned by my best friend.
As being the hero who survived the tragic incident, he feels hopeless and empty. Having the sense of alienation from people around him, the existence
It makes the overall work more dark and robust.” Avery said that the variety and doctoring of the sounds made her feel disassociated from her surroundings and engaged in the new occurrences within the video. There is not one specific fear or theme to focus on, but rather a
In this essay, I will discuss how the film is about film itself. The notions of gaze will also be analysed, through a discussion of voyeurism and Jeff and Lisa’s relationship. This brilliant film about watching the neighbours simultaneously represents a self-reflexive film about the cinema and filmmaking. “[…] Jeff embodies the activity and passivity of both the film maker and the spectator; the director creates and waits, while the viewer
From the brief passage from the story, you can see how many bad decisions are being made and how they are adding up, leading towards the tragic end. As can see from reading, the
The suspense of the story deepens as Giovanni continues to descend floors until his death. The suspense used in the story leaves readers on the edge of their
At the beginning of the film there is a narrative voice over which explains the political context of what is happening to the audience. The viewer never has to figure anything out for themselves therefor the film is conforming to a typical narrative structure. The storyline concerns the coming of World War II and a love triangle between Baine, Ilsa and Laszlo. The viewer’s main focus is on the love triangle rather than the political context making the overall storyline easy to understand. This also is an aspect as to why this movie conforms to a classical narrative approach.
Once the reader begins to question the lack of explanation surrounding the event, a suspenseful tone beings to grow. Due to the unexpected
Thesis: The Film Shutter Island is one of the best suspenseful thrillers, it accomplishes this by employing the literary, dramatic, and cinematic aspects of filming such as symbolism, superb acting, and cinematography, making the film a must see. II. BODY Body Introduction: In Shutter Island, many tools of
Kylie Mawn Professor Rodais CINE 121 Midterm 4 March 2018 Question 1: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) is a film that is well known for pushing cinematic boundaries in many ways. One commonly recognized technique in Welles’ film is deep focus photography. Deep focus photography is used in films to allow everything in a shot to be in focus at once. Typical, only specific characters or objects are in focus in any given frame in order to guide the audience’s attention in a scene, but deep focus can bring a new level of sophistication to a shot.