From the scene of 24 that I watched, I believe the theme is justice. Since, from what I gathered, the characters are trying to stop a bomb from going off. The director is trying to create a tense atmosphere with everything they use. From the lighting to the camera angles, everything is planned to make the feeling tense. The whole premise of the movie even suggests the director is trying to make a tense atmosphere.
The scene starts off with a fade in, because this is just the opening edit, it really has nothing to do with the theme. Then, a close up, showing how the main character is slightly upset by her plan being stopped. This sets up the intensity of the scene. It then goes to an over the shoulder shot, showing who will be interrogating her for information, which, this person looks pretty upset. Showing how upset this person is already, makes you feel tense, hence making this show feel intense. next, there is a zoom-in, which makes you really focused on the main character’s face which shows her looking seriously. As I will keep mentioning throughout this essay, the lighting really effects the scene by only having one source, giving a good unsettling atmosphere. Because it is only one light source, it creates shadows that are good for horror movies. It goes to a shot reverse shot, showing that they are being filmed in there, this makes you know that they are being watched and sets up for a good impact later on. Then it goes back to an over the shoulder, followed by a close up of the woman looking a bit annoyed, going to a closeup of the man’s face as he’s looking at the woman. After that, it goes to a shot pan and tilt over to the women’s face. This paper doesn’t get explained right away, leading the audience in suspense and thinking “whats on that paper?”. Finally, more close ups of the character, giving off a suspenseful vibe.
Moving onto the next seen, which starts off as two shot of two people holding a camera. These are the people who are watching the two in the private room. The shot is crowded as people walk in and out of shot. This scene is done with a handheld camera as it is a bit shaky. This scene is intense because it shows that the people are watching and will make sure nothing happens to any of the people in there.
The scene after this, were back in the interrogation room with another close up and eye line match. Once again, these Its time I talk about the music. The music helps you feel unsettled and gives you a sense of tension because of how suspenseful this is. It makes you feel like you’re in the room with the characters and feeling the same way they do. Then its back to another close up of the main character followed by yet again, another over the shoulder. Using the over the shoulder shot is effective because it shows how the character is seeing the other person without it being point of view. They keep alternating between close ups and the over the shoulder, even changing it up follow the man who is pacing back and forth. This creates tension by having the man pacing and looking right at the woman and into the camera as they talk about reasons why the main character should be transported somewhere for the bomb. Finally, after a few back and forth of over the shoulder and close up. We get a close up of the man and the shot moves into a over the shoulder shot as he moves into the screen shot. Then it pans from the man to the women as he sounds pretty upset, this makes it intense because of how angry he sounds. Then it automatically goes back to a closeup of the man talking directly to the woman. This makes it intense because of the lighting, since its only one light, the shadows are harsher. It then cuts to a two shot of the man slamming his hands on the table.
It then cuts to the next scene is a close up of the woman who was watching the cameras looking frightened. Same thing with the man watching the cameras. They nervously watch this scene go on which makes what just happened more intense. In the next scene, its on the woman in the room as the man is inches apart from her face. The next scene is a zoom in on the mans face as he stares intently into the camera which is unsettling on itself with the lighting and how intent he is on doing what he’s going to do. The same shot then moves to an over the shoulder as he moves to sit back down and look at the woman.
The scene then moves to a shot of the cameras footage as they zoom out to show the two people watching them. This isn’t exactly an intense shot but it helps build up the momentum of it. The next scene is of the women as she’s sitting in the chair and it pans to the man looking at her. She seems nervous and the man still seems intent, which pared together makes a tense scene. And then another close up of both the man and the women as they stare at each other. The intensity comes from how many times it switches. Finally, the man bursts out of his chair from a two shot and slams her into the wall with an action match. This scene is intense because of the surprise of what just happened. There’s also that sudden hint of fear. The sound of the chair being pushed and slammed into the wall is also pretty tensing for me personally.
In the last scene, the first shot is a split screen which show the man choking the woman and the security guard running towards the room. The use of a handheld shot makes it more tense because you can see the security running and something about the handheld shot just makes something very tense. As the man bursts into the room, it breaks the split and turns into a two shot. This scene is intense because of the sounds. They stopped the intense music and just let the characters breath heavily as the man storms out of the room. Then it goes to another closeup and fades away.
I think the director was trying to give the audience a sense of tension through his work. He manages to do this, even in relation to just the scene I watched, I felt tense the entire time. Knowing the whole movie would make the viewer even more tense, too. I think the director was trying to give off a theme of justice because the characters are trying to stop a bomb.
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