Author: N2811ancy_3pton

‘Can’t you hear me?’

The point of view shot is hardly a novel camera angle. We are often presented with an image, whether that might be a low angle shot of the Deadly Vipers staring down at you (Kill Bill Vol. 1), your crush gliding towards you in slow motion (The Royal Tenenbaums), or images of foreign human vessels moving around you (The Terminator). In this standard use of the technique, an image is shown of an environment containing significant objects or persons, and is subsequently followed by an image of the person who has just been viewing the previous image. It immerses the viewer in the narrative, making them connect with the character’s emotional state.

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The phrase is more readily associated with university campuses; signs warning students that the content of lectures contains upsetting content which they might wish to avoid. Trigger warnings have come to be associated with debates about political correctness in the culture wars, but the recent online backlash about the portrayal of cancer in Taikka Wahiti’s latest Marvel entry bring new issues into the discussion.

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‘I’m like a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught one’.

As Heath Ledger’s clown prince of crime explains to a bed-ridden, broken Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan’s second Batman film, there’s no deliberate malice in his actions. He’s simply an agent of chaos. But, as the above, genius 9 second sequence makes clear, actions speak louder than words. After successfully escaping prison in fiery fashion, we witness the Joker gleefully stick his body outside the back window of a police car to the tune of blearing sirens, placing a gloved hand firmly on the roof.

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Despite Netflix’s dwindling subscriber numbers over the past year, one of its biggest productions to date will hopefully recuperate some of its losses, with Stranger Things’ fourth season achieving a record-breaking 7.2 billion minutes of viewing from May 30^th to June 5^th. According to figures recently provided by the Wall Street Journal, each episode in the current season of the smash-hit horror-drama cost the streaming service an eye-watering $30 million.  

Continue reading “Mini-Review: Stranger Things Season 4, Episodes 8 and 9”

Writing a review of my favourite television series of all time has the potential to get subjective. And lengthy. In any case, I’m going to provide you with some easter eggs you might not have spotted, and some details I particularly loved. Which still ends up being lengthy. S’all good, man. 

Continue reading “Small Details: Better Call Saul Season 6, Part 1”