The Parallax View

Alan J. Pakula: To Kill a Mocking Bird The paranoia trilogy: Klute; Sophie’s Choice The plot: the main character thinks he can solve the crime The audience expects the main character to triumph, even at the near ending. The architecture in the film: what does it represent; the corporate abstract figure the visuals of the film contributes to the film — the vast architecture dwarfs the humans in the city: swallowing the people; Anti-genre: reverses the form of a Hollywood thriller Sound, and sudden cuts: loud, emotional, disconnected, discomfortable, Warren Beatty:

• the competent?
• dissenting figures
• oblivious
• he begins with the complexity
• residue of the confidence in his physical Heroic mythology
  If you love someone that’s all it matters The marginal “main character” When the close-up of the camera focuses on the candidate, obliterating the other context: suggests a conspiracy The brainwash scene: