The use of Camera Focus in Miller’s crossing got me focusing on it much more when I was watching movies over the Fourth. I have always enjoyed photography and the powerful nature of carefully framed and thought out images, and a lot of the trouble I have with film is that it is hard to truly appreciate the individual frame, because of the speed of change in scenes. Watching an Inconvenient Truth I noticed that the director played with focus in an interesting way: he chose to focus at times on Al Gore’s computer leaving Gore, the protaganist, unfocused in the background. This had an interesting way of distancing the political, and personally held beliefs of Al Gore, and focusing on the scientific evidence, as symbolized by the computer. For me camera focus, and more importantly unexpected use of focus, can be one of the best […]
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