The movie clip that I found is from a famous Hong Kong film, “In the Mood for Love”. This is a movie directed by Wong Kar-wai, aiming to investigate extramarital affairs and pursuit for incomplete beauty. In the story happened in Hong Kong in 1962, a woman Su who was neglected by her husband and a man who is betrayed by his wife coming from two broken family gradually become feeling for each other, attracted by each other and falling in love eventually. However, they are afraid of the truth that they are also trapped in their most hatred extramarital affair. So under the constraint of moral and self-esteem, they resolutely cut off their love and went back to their lonely broken families.
In the Corridor scene, we are following Su with the tracking shots, so close as if we are walking behind her. Su’s delicate outfit on the contrary reflects the loneliness and repression of the inside of this figure. By using the slow motion, tracking shots and the dark tone to capture their passing by, “the camera places the audience in the scene,…, the camera leads the audience around by the eyes”. We as audience can foresee the tragic outcome of their love. They were so close and they passed by, but they cannot touch each other. In addition, due to the grayish tone and the ambiguity it creates not only by this clip but also throughout the whole movie, audiences are placed in a situation of a fourth wall that we want to penetrate in their relationships, however we are kept in a certain distance at the same time. The camera places us in a voyeuristic situation that it helps us peak into their heart and immoral development. And the contrast between the dark and the bright help us understand that she has some dark sides inside however what she pretends herself to be is the bright and elegant self.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypY9OaKCfRU
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