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...GoThIkA...

The film that I have chosen to analyse is titled 'Gothika', featuring Halle Berry. Its a film about a Psychologist who finds herself to be a patient in the institue she once worked in and for the brutal yet forgoten murder of her husband.

I have taken a scene where Halle Berry is being confined in a small cell in one of the psychiatric wards she once worked in.

She suddenly jumps out of her sleep, telling the audience that something has woken her up and put her ina state of shock. We can see this by the way her eyes are open wide, shes sweating and breating heavily; which usually means someones in shock or scared. A close up is used on her face in order to make her emotion (state of mind) clear to the audeince as it plays a big part in building up tension in the scene. When she gets up from her bed her body language tells the audeince alot about what is going on in her mind. She moves slowly and is constantly moving her eyes from one side of the room to the other, this suggests thats shes confused, scared and also cautious of the situation. When somthing shocks her she begins to panick and shows the audince a sence of paranoia and fear. This is backed up with the non-diegetic sound (eerie music), as it becomes more intence, she becomes more worked up and scared.