Thriller Review

Detachment

Detachment is a thriller film, the story is about a man waking up from a violent conversation between a wife and his husband, as the man seems irritated from this usual routine he decided to end this leaving his flat with his gun.
As this is a thriller the story is not very clear as camera shots are based more on facial expression and create intensity.
Thrillers usually have slow timing to increase the intensity.
One of the best things about this film is that the directors decided to create the intensity through normal usual gestures. This makes every single step and movement of the man crucial and intense for the audience, for example, when the man tries to light his cigarette unsuccessfully, as part of the audience I felt nervous as the cigarette contain nicotine and in some way it calms you down, as he could not have this I felt a huge increase of intensity, the directors made this scene crucial zooming in with the camera to the cigarette and stopping the soundtrack (screaming) to concentrate to the sound of the lighter.
The sound was the most important effect of this film as the screaming got louder and louder to give intensity to the movements and make the audience feel uncomfortable.
Straight after the cigarette part the screaming restarts but with a street/pop music to make the impression that the screaming are as loud as possible because you can still hear them underneath all that noise.
Costumes are simple as the man seems that he does not have enough money to buy new clothes and as he gets dress with the first clothes he finds in the flat. The costumes are normal pans, t-shirt and a big hoody. Those costumes even if insignificant they create a stereotype of a "bad person" to the audience.
The setting was a messy dirty flat, this also created the stereotype of a person that does not take care of his own stuff as well as himself.
The last part of the thriller is the man rushing to put clothes on (we can notice this with the fact that he wears his pyjamas underneath his normal clothes).
He then take a gun and leave his flat.
As an audience point of few the last few movements are in the same timing (slow) but the movements used make those last seconds coming up really quickly.
The intensity increase through the different scenes.