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| This isn't even a terribly egregious frame as it goes. But it shows the "wrong side" well. |
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| Weird "eyes-in-the-middle" thing. |
But now I'm done watching Luther and I can get back to work.
What would be in the interest of preventing an otherwise formidable instance without the means.
Friday, December 06, 2013
All the Young Girls Love Alice
The BBC series Luther is shot strangely. I mean singles on the wrong side of the frame, eyes-in-the-middle-of-the-frame strangely. Either the first season was much more like that, or I got used to it in subsequent seasons, but it's rather weird.
The show is rather well-written but it squanders female characters like crazy. And I do mean "squander" -- not "makes uninteresting". Lady Jessica is a fantastic "police captain". Is it a spoiler to say...? Why yes. It's a minor spoiler to point out that between the first and second seasons...
... she disappears. Never to be seen again. Not a plot thing. Maybe the actor just took off? Who knows? But she was a good and interesting police captain who was a woman and really one could go on and on about how she was a female character but in command but without that "never let them see you cry" ethos. I mean, it's a gazillion interesting.
But now I'm done watching Luther and I can get back to work.
But now I'm done watching Luther and I can get back to work.
I think the composition is to give the impression of a skewed perspective view of everyone, no one in that series is straight up without motive.
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Still way more then those in the micro-indie will ever see budget wise.
Yeah, it's clearly deliberate. It's interesting.
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