In this scene there firstly is a mid-shot of the woman entering the room with some non-diegetic music playing in the background to put emphasis on her walking into the room. This puts all the attention on her and makes the audience pay special attention to her, as she is the main part of the shot. This mid shot lets us see the sort of facial expressions that she has and could give us a good idea of what she is thinking. I thought that she looked quite concerned or anxious about entering the room. As the mid-shot tracks the woman across the room it shows her glancing at one of the men in the room, he then tries to move towards her but is stopped. This is used by the director to show the woman as weak and needing protection from whatever the threat in the room is. The woman the looks up towards another man who is up some stairs looking down at her. He tells her to ‘kneel’. This is also used to show the male dominance in the scene and to portray the woman as weaker.
The camera is then directed at a low mid-shot facing up towards the man up the stairs from the prospective of the woman who is kneeling down on the floor. This shows that at this point the man is in control as he is at a much higher level than her, showing more examples of male dominance. The man at the top of the stairs then has a speech, in which he acts very confident showing his dominance over all the others in the room. When the man stops talking the woman who is still kneeling down starts to speak and tells a story which builds up a more positive and dominant force towards her. Her facial expressions change and she becomes a more confident individual who seems to take charge of the scene and take away the male dominance from the man at the top of the stairs who after hearing what the woman has said seems less confident about being in control and his facial expressions change to being very nervous and agitated by what the woman has said. While this is happening the non-diegetic music in the background changes and becomes more positive showing more power is being shifted to the woman. The woman is also now standing up at a more even level with the man on the stairs and seems to be matching his dominance with hers. This shows more female dominance in the room.
The camera then shows a close up of the doctor in his cage and then switches to a mid-shot of him breaking out of the cage and becoming young and tall again. The shot then shows him glowing and floating in the air, which could portray him as being a sort of god like man or having magical powers. This switches the dominance in the room over from the man on the stairs to the doctor and gives him the most power. The final shat that we see is of the man on the stairs falling to the floor with a very scared and concerned look on his face as the doctor moving towards him. This shows that the doctor has now gained all the power and is the most dominant in the room. This switches the scene back to being more male dominant but the males being a good force instead of a kind of evil one.
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