Expressive movement unit 2

The interplay of acting (gestures, facial expressions, speech), camera movements and shot composition stages an intimate, unofficial space in which the image of the caring father is conveyed. 

In the center of the image space Lieutenant Bently is standing and repairing devices. Parallel to Dane, the camera approaches Bently and frames both men in a medium close shot. Dane sits next to him, whereby the space, through an unmoving close up, becomes more intimate. In this way the stagnation, the lack of movement, is conveyed on the level of shot composition. Separated from the lower ranks, their posture is less official. Dane chews on a toothpick and talks to Bently with no apparent hierarchy; the dialogue conveys a situation that seems serious in light of Samurai reconnaissance and the further delay in the repair of the airplane. Thus a general image of the group’s critical situation is made palpable, staged by the desolate posture, the dissolution of hierarchy and the motionlessness, all of which threaten to bring the military body to fall.