Sunday, October 21, 2012

Mostly Martha (Sandra Nettelbeck, 2001)




In the movie is present it as many of the European movies, very calm and clear what is present (at least the one I saw). However the connection of this movie made me re-watched it few times just to make sure I caught the moments where I love.

Particularly, in the last chapter 14 (around 1&1/2 hours from the beginning) when Martha (the main character) walks into the restaurant kitchen alone, prepare for evening customers. A close shot of her standing in the kitchen alone than when she kept looking up, suddenly her coworker is walking into the frame behind her as the kitchen have been working as normal for a while. The cut wasn’t very hard to find, however it was a perfect decoy for me to miss, when Martha was breaking the fourth wall.

The cut between her being alone and her co-worker walking behind her was when Martha looks steadily at us; that is where the cut was. If it wasn’t a bit of the expose on the left side of the screen, I can say it was a perfect cut. This is only one of the examples of the cut; there are so many great once, which would leave it to whoever is interest in the movie.

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