Essay On Moonrise Kingdom
Moonrise kingdom; through shots, mise-en-scene,and its use of bright colors, is shown to be about innocence and its possible loss and how this affects relationships between many people.the film the film falls into the middle of the spectrum moving towards the theatrical side since mush of what you see in it wouldn't normally be seen in real life. There is the brightness and sometimes saturation of the color and the somewhat ridiculousness of the sets and costumes.
Throughout moonrise kingdom, there is a sense of childlike innocence; this is shown through the bright colors and theatrics. Moonrise kingdom’s of the mise-en-scene is reminiscent of a doll house or a play, nothing seems to be real. In the opening sequence, this is shown …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie the bishop, the family sits far apart from one another while trapped inside from the rain. The boys sit together with a medium shot as they play a game the shot widens from Mr bishop to Mrs bishop and then to Suzy, the apartness of the characters within the story are expressed within their placements in the scene.
There is also apartness shown with the narrator every shot of him within the movie is either a medium or a wide shot. He is also the only character that gets direct lighting, besides in the play of Noah's ark, and the only character shown wearing such a great amount of red. This puts him distinctly apart from the rest of the characters showing that he knows the most and that he's important. On the significance of lighting within the film, it at points happens with the storms in the movie, major plot point that wasn't sad or happened in the rain it was mostly just poor decision making. For example jumping off the roof, in an inadvertent Romeo and Juliet like risk, to jump into the water in the hurricane to escape the church. Every adult decision was made in the dark and that might be a dark way of showing the loss of innocence and how to become an adult and making hard decisions can be dirty work that people don't like to think
Throughout moonrise kingdom, there is a sense of childlike innocence; this is shown through the bright colors and theatrics. Moonrise kingdom’s of the mise-en-scene is reminiscent of a doll house or a play, nothing seems to be real. In the opening sequence, this is shown …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie the bishop, the family sits far apart from one another while trapped inside from the rain. The boys sit together with a medium shot as they play a game the shot widens from Mr bishop to Mrs bishop and then to Suzy, the apartness of the characters within the story are expressed within their placements in the scene.
There is also apartness shown with the narrator every shot of him within the movie is either a medium or a wide shot. He is also the only character that gets direct lighting, besides in the play of Noah's ark, and the only character shown wearing such a great amount of red. This puts him distinctly apart from the rest of the characters showing that he knows the most and that he's important. On the significance of lighting within the film, it at points happens with the storms in the movie, major plot point that wasn't sad or happened in the rain it was mostly just poor decision making. For example jumping off the roof, in an inadvertent Romeo and Juliet like risk, to jump into the water in the hurricane to escape the church. Every adult decision was made in the dark and that might be a dark way of showing the loss of innocence and how to become an adult and making hard decisions can be dirty work that people don't like to think