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Film Analysis Of The House

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The transition to act three is signified all the guests getting in their cars and driving away, right after Chris and Rose agree to leave the house. The climax of the movie relied heavily on the portrayal of Rose Armitage. From the first time we get introduced to Rose, the audience has this impression that Rose is unaware of what’s going on at the house; the use of the character’s performance, the camera shots, and costume design allude to that conclusion. Her initial advocacy and friendly nature in act one and two makes the spectator believe that she is on Chris’ side, and in many scenes the director had the camera focus on her face, forcing people to see her emotions, whether it was in the bakery looking at pastries in act one, or …show more content…

He wasn’t able to leave without Rose because when he was a child, his mother was hit by a car and instead of calling the police, he sat and watched tv. This lack of action causes his mother to die, making Chris unable to repeat the same fate to someone else.
When his mother gets hit by a car, Chris scratched the armchair of his seat back his mother’s apartment. The director uses narrative frequency to demonstrate this behavior throughout the movie. This same act gets repeated again in act one when Missy hypnotizes him, causing Chris to scratch the arms rests of her chair as well. This habit is shown again in act three, when he scratches the armrest of the chair he’s imprisoned in, revealing the cotton on the inside, which he uses to block his ear drums in order to avoid Missy’s hypnosis. This act of picking the cotton, while has a significant impact on the resolution, also references the historical role of black men in south, a dark part in the nation’s that people tend to bury under the surface. Finally after using his wit and strength, Chris escapes the house, killing everyone in the process and inadvertently burning the house down. The last scene is a roller coaster of emotions. The use of lighting brings out this emotion in the audience. While Chris is strangling Rose, a cop car pulls up with its sirens and lights flashing. Since it is dark, you cannot see the who is driving the car, nor can you any other distinct feature of vehicle, other

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