Mise En Scene Analysis Of Jasper Jones

The movie is extremely well put together, the props, scene arrangements, camera movements and angles. Even with the film being in black and white the lighting was well played and designed. The mise en scene was laid out, positioned and selected methodically to encase the simplicity but elegant comforts of a stationary life that someone who wants to settle down. The set and setup contains the mundane and dullness of staying put that one would feel who like to be on the go. Not only does mise en scene, lighting, setting, camera movement and location en-capture and speaks to and out for both of the main characters it sets the mood and aids the story to grab its viewer to help them relate.

The scene that conveys this is when the main female and male characters are in an interview cell at the jail house. Mrs. Smith played by Lana Turner who was under arrest for the murder of her husband and Frank played by John Garfield who was her lover who also assisted her but was not under any suspicion and was in the hospital for his injuries. In a previous scene Frank had been worked over by the Attorney General and coerced to signing a compliant against Mrs. Smith. She did not know that Frank had been worked over and assumed that he had gone "yellow" and made a deal to save himself by throwing her under the bus. Now in the scene where they are in an interview room at the jail house, Mrs. Smith is beyond livid and adamant on taking Frank with her since she felt she was
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