Catherine, our main character, wants proof of many things, mainly proof that she isn’t crazy like her dad ended up being, and establish her own legacy. She also wanted to prove that the prime number proof that she led Harold Dobbs to find is her work, and not her dad’s. I think that her main proof is to sort of separate herself from her father, because the movie starts with Catherine talking to her deceased father, asking and discussing the nature of her father’s craziness, and if she will end up crazy just like him. I think that Catherine does a pretty good job proving she isn’t crazy like her father, and that she is a separate person. Some decisions she makes are quite brash, like calling the cops on Hobbs, or deciding back and forth to live with her sister, but each of these decisions have some moral ground, and are only exaggerated because they are in the moment, and are influenced by emotion.
She also is successful in proving that her prime number proof is her work, rather than her dads. At first, Dobbs and Catherine’s sister didn’t believe that the work was hers because the handwriting was very similar. I believe this is a fair assumption, but at the same time Catherine has a valid point being upset, since her two closest acquaintances don’t believe …show more content…
This should be done with a powerful design of both sound and lighting/visual, as well as a combination of both elements. In terms of strictly sound, I believe that an effective way to show the different realities of Catherine’s dead father and the living would be to create a separate, different atmosphere when Christine is talking to her deceased father. More specifically, I think that in the scenes where Catherine is talking to her father, the setting and mood should be more eerie and cold, both visually and