Analysis 4

1.

The protagonist is the man who first enters the elevator in the opening scene.

His “crisis” was his ascent to the 9th? Floor, with a variety of elevator antics in-between.

The first time he enters the elevator, as he ascends, several large people gradually get on the elevator, and the protagonist questions the carrying capacity of the elevator. He eventually gets nervous and gets off before he reaches his floor. He then gets onto another elevator full of sick people which the film eludes to having swine-flu.

I believe the new normal is that he accepts that elevators are lousy as he tries to get to his destination?

While the lighting feels very fluorescent and corporate, I don’t think most uses of colors were deliberate in this film. There was a variety of pastels used on clothing but dull colors used in the setting and office environment. Even the main character was wearing a uninteresting dark grey shirt. Any choices about color in this film seem circumstantial.

The framing of all of the shots did a good job at expressing exactly how cramped the elevator was, and where each person was in relation to the door and main character. Most of the shots of the main character were head on shots of him reacting to the people around him, however, the few shots that were different did a good job at expressing whatever movement our protagonist was making. I thought the top-down shots in the crowded elevator did a great job at expressing how little room there actually was.

The visual style felt pretty intentionally accessible and familiar. Nothing was introduced to us that we wouldn’t immediately recognize, the only things that contributed to the movement of the plot were the actions of the characters, not so much the things that were visually introduced.

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