Revolutionary Road

The scene started off with a long shot that lead to the characters walking into a mid shot, this is all done as a double shot; which is used to represent the relationship between the two characters and I felt the length of this shot could represent the journey they had to travel together to get to this point. This made me feel more curious as to what their relationship was and why it was important to the scene. The shot then changes to a wide, double, mid shot of the couple in the car. By making it a wide shot, they could have a noticeable distance between the actors which represents their current predicament. But by also centring the wide shot around the car, I felt it gave the scene a sense of confidment and therefore made me feel uncomfortable. This feeling of discomfort was then amplified by the shot being changed to an over the shoulder which was angled to make the audience feel as if they were in the back of the car; like you were stuck in the middle of their argument. She then tells him to pull over the car and she gets out. Her exit from the car is filmed as a long shot; she seems to want to get as far away from the car as possible. But by also having this shot as a wide shot, the director has kept a lot of the background in view. I felt like the wideness of this shot made their argument seem insignificant; as if the world was carrying on despite the characters' world falling apart. But throughout the scene, the director constantly uses duel shots. This gave me a sense that their relationship was important; that all that mattered at that point in time to the plot was these two people because where they went from here was important. However, the director did not use any angles in this scene. I felt this showed that they both had equal power against each other but by using many over the shoulder shots/mid shots, it showed you the emotions of each character more clearly and if I'm honest, the way it was shown scared me slightly as you saw his anger build but she stayed completely unmoved by the situation. She was almost cold about it. And by focusing on the emotions, through these midshots, it made me scared and slightly uncomfortable.