LTEA 138 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Diet, War Crime, Long Shot
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Grandparent shots: have time: clocks in their scene living in a temporary space; dialogue with time ; conscious about time throughout film; hear ticking of clock. Noriko the timeless; when shes on screen, dont see a clock. Returns to time in the end; the clock restarts to tick; the past (=war) becomes a memory for her. Tokyo is a space with the memories of war: the emperoor"s palace and the japanese diet building. 3 small war criminals see each other again in tokyo. Diff: people in opening; boat in ending, no train, no movement. Similar composition, diff lighting when grandmother dies. Positioned the characters in frame within frame (i. e door) Draw our attention more to the character. Director always shows the whole room in the frame characters more focused on. Use of shadows (side lighting); films one side of the face (war criminal scene) Talking to each other but not looking into the camera.
