Blog 13-Rough-rough draft.

In this essay I will prove how lighting, along with special effects convey all themes associated with good and evil, as well innocent and deviant. As soon as the movie started one of the major special effects that I noticed was the dissolve/ mirror image of the trains colliding. Right at that point that special effect tells you that two storylines were going to come together and in this case good and evil will collide. The first character introduced was the City woman. The effects of lighting as well as lighting in other aspects created the image of her being “evil”. She had dark messy hair that she parted down the middle before she left for a night out, and the night that she was going to get the husband, she picked up a colorful dress on her bed, after looking at it she threw it down and picked up an all black dress to wear out that night. In that instant you see how where she is from (the city) affects the way she dresses. When she gets outside of the house it is dark, she whistles from outside for the husband to come out from his brightly lit house (where the wife is also.) The husband hears the sound and ultimately goes out to have an affair with the city woman. The side of the room where he changes his coat is darkly lit compared to the side of the room where the wife would enter the scene; claiming that he is about to do something devious while the wife’s plans was to bring food in the dining area for her husband. This is when the character of the wife is introduced. When the husband is already gone the wife comes out to find that he is not there. She is the complete opposite of the city woman. She never had to touch her hair, it was neatly pulled back and the color of her hair was blonde (the opposite of dark). This simple description of the woman shows already, that there is a difference in these two women. The wife is portrayed as the innocent type (because she is) and how the country affects the way she is in contrary to the city affecting the city woman.
When the words: “they used to be like children, carefree…always happy and laughing” showed up the sequence immediately after that was the wife and the husband in a meadow with high key lighting (very bright) and exudes the happiness in which they use to share. Then when the other words “Now he ruins himself for that woman from the city- money lenders strip the farm-” the next shot is a very low light and dark. When they talked about his wife it is always high key lighting, and when they talk about the city woman the lighting is all low key lighting.