Meshes of The Afternoon Analysis

The focus on the flower as it put on the pavement highlights its symbolism. The medium-shot of the knife in the bread and telephone on the stairs shows the importance of the object. The concentration on all the little actions i.e. opening the door, note the importance of similarities in each repetition of the actions. It’s these little changes that help to make it hard to grasp reality because it is not clearly distinguished as to what is a dream.

The shadow of a woman moves towards the flower creates a sense of ambiguity as forebodes. Her fatigue is shown in point of view. The aperture is played around with to allow the audience to view things the way she does. There are continuous switches between her point-of-view and the audience point of view, which adds to this air of confusion surrounding the ‘narrative’.  Every time the protagonist bumps into a wall camera follows the movement of her body and replicates that. The deliberate beating/or systematic knocking of the drum as the female protagonist looks around the room creates a sense of dread and almost replicates the sound of knocking at hell’s gate.