(Film review) The Black Hole

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Pick your favourite of the three and write a review of 350/400 words (electronic copy).

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-         Use of still images from the film as evidence.

In terms of the film content The Black Hole is a short movie, where only one actor is present, the main character. The film takes setting at stationary scenery. As it seems, it’s supposed, or it’s deduced that this actor is an ordinary office worker who stays extra hours at his job (apparently, till all other workers went away and night comes). He’s alone taking photocopies without talking at all. The photocopier starts to work badly, so he hits it, and suddenly a page with a black circle covering great part of it gets out of the machine. The man looks at it, surprised and leaves it for a moment, and the photocopier begins to function well.

After a while, he realizes that objects can pass through the page, like into another dimension or for entering wherever you wish to. He proves it trying with his own hand. The protagonist goes to a candy-bar machine and takes sweets... Later he seriously stares at the door of the room where the strongbox is located.

He puts the sheet over the box, and he starts to take out one wad of dollars, two, three, ten... He wants to get more and more, but what happens? He gets inside to see how much money is left, but he slips and falls into the box, with all the money outside and no exit at all.

About the sound, every time the man enters something into the black hole, sound effect of a deep noise is made. The background, natural ambient sound it’s the noise of the photocopier that takes presence all the way through. Non-diagetic sound is also present. However, music is absent.

            Speaking about genre, as the movie has a mixture of more than one, it can be said that it must be called “generic hybrids”.

Referring to the camera, although a close up one takes quick shots continuously, its position doesn’t differs so much creating diverses angles in relation to the main subject. The lighting is black, grey, white, and dull all the time.

It’s a really very short but funny and interesting comic story that catches the audience attention (it must be reminded that it is not aimed to any particular or target people) by a mix of suspense, but a humour touch at the end.

Finally, concluding, with a few scenes, it also transmits a message against ambition and robbing.

Word count: 400.