Les Rev Wrapped Up Flashcards
Genre
Les Rev uses visual codes and conventions from the supernatural thriller genre in order to convey a thematic more conventional of the psychological thriller genre.
This genre hybridity allows for differences which will engage audiences into a much deeper discourse than the ‘life vs death’ theme typical of the supernatural horror genre.
It does so by engaging with cinematic traditions such as poetic realism, non linear narratives and the pairing of stock characters, typical to the supernatural thriller genre, in order to create binary oppositions aligning with the conventional undertones of psychological thrillers.
What I think the themes are:
The various ways to process grief.
- Through religion (Pierre)
- Through repressing it (Jerome)
- Through clinging to it (Claire)
- Through treating it with humanity (Lena)
- Through emotional stagnancy (Adele)
- Through destruction (Mr Costa)
- Through moving on (The pregnant couple)
What I think the themes are:
Loss of innocence & the lack of control over our own fate
Victor & Lucy take up a small portion of the frame in wide shots where the settings are eerie e.g. the subway station. How innocence (Victor was once a living young boy & Lucy was murdered unprovoked) can be stripped of us by the world which surrounds us.
The feeling of a lack of control over our fate - Victor was just a boy, and Lucy was just trying to get home.
Jerome using necromancy to take control of his fate - a mourning father.
What I think the themes are:
Unresolved trauma
Camille’s room; once normal and lived in (reality) now has been consumed by her mothers own grief for her by beanbag turned into a shrine (memory)
The cyclical nature: Returning to the bus crash, Victor as the embodiment of unresolved trauma.
