During the opening of the scene the are trying to teach people a lesson, and there are fast paced edits with lots of stunts and people jumping around with classical music in the background. There were cuts to the music to show the jesus statue and this was synchronized with the music. There is a montage of variously strange images and violence. There is a scene that is majority sped up, and the Beethoven music is played in the background the blind of his face looks like he is watching them. There are fast cuts of mens faces around during teh fights of people that he has hurt. There is a parallel edit to show the people are downstairs playing the music and torturing him because he is upstairs. The edits of the newspapers breaks up the film and gives the audience a insight into what has been happening while he has been recovering.
Shot types
There is a fantastic shot type with the bright light shining down the underpass and the large shadows make the four people seem huge and superior. There are various shot types, and there are close ups and shot reverse shot is used. There is a tracking shot similar to the shining where kubrick is following the man thats walking. There is a point of view shot during the fight between the man and the woman. The shot from the four people looking down on him and staring at him in the face, gives the audience a different feel to how we look at the man in prison, we are looking down on him like finally he has been found and been locked up for what he has done. Shot reverse shot is used in the office between two men, this is the first time that shot reverse shot has really been used properly. Extreme close up of the bottle and the needle going into the bottle. There is point of view shots used during the living room scene, with the father looking at him. Strange camera angle used to look up at the man from the wheelchair. Tracking shot with the woman walking down the hallway.
Mise en scene
Symbolism - Symbolism is clearly shown with the first scene with the shadows of the men that are shown to be clearly large and superior. The colours are shown during the film, like the woman in bold red, this is because kubrick likes to use bold primary colours. Biblical reference with the snake and jesus. There is a scene in the prison where there is upbeat music and a shot down the hallway which is all symmetrical, this is typical of Stanley Kubrick. Intertextuality is used during the film, where real clips are used from the war and they are used inside the film. Very symmetrical shots that are used during the living room scenes with the family and the two men standing up staring each other in the face. There is a very long tracking shot which shows the man walking down the side of the river, this is a shot type that we have seen used a lot during kubrick films. The day is extremely dark and raining the scene and weather represents his feeling.
Iconography - when the man is typing there is symmetry of the scene, and when the woman goes to the door there is a shot down the hall way which we have seen in the shining. The place where they are drinking milk is so futuristic and strange, it makes the audience confused about what is going on and why there there. The rule of 3rd of film will avoid putting people in the middle of the screen but kubrick puts the main characters in the middle of the screen and gives the film symmetry and strange camera angles. There is a tracking back shot from the man playing the music and everything is very symmetrical again, the speakers, either side and the player in the middle.
Music
There is classical music playing in the background which try to make the scene happy, it makes it theatrical and there is a contrast between the action and the music, it seems like a musical or carnival like. There is the whipping noises and these contrast the music. There is loud somewhat carnival music where he is looking at two woman, this gives the impression that he might be in two minds and the music turns him evil. The classical music starts again when the four people are together when they go on what looks like it might be anther killing spree. The music in the film is one of the most important things during this film, the classical music gives the scenes a funny feel but we (the audience) know it shouldn't be funny. The music during the transfer scene makes it look like he is getting out scott free, it is like celebratory music. The music of the film is kubrick basically opposite of what is happening in the scene. When alex is taking by the two police officers that are his friends from the past, the space/themed music plays that was played during the scenes where he was killing people, there is a crashing sound when he was hitting alex, and then he stumbles across the house they stole from before.
The effect of him narrating plays with the audience because it makes the audience have a different feeling about him because it seems like the audience know him better than his friends.
