What Richard Did
What Richard Did is a thriller, social realism and drama. It was made in 2012 and it was directed by Lenny Abrhamson. It is about a Boy named Richard who's life is turned into a spiral of depression when he hears his rugby friend was found in a ditch near the house party he was at last night. The themes of the film are betrayal, friend ship, relationships, family and love.
This film portrays a perfect picture of evocative portrait of guilt and mourning whilst also parsing stickiest notions of guilt and innocence. Richard keeps flip-flopping on the idea of turning himself in as he learns he's not a suspect, a wishy-washy belief that suggests nothing. It frees him, the idea of coming clean, but at the same time he understands the pain and suffering he would be causing his family and community by going away. Richard seems like he would do a lot more good out of prison than inside, particularly with the upcoming young kids he's shepherding through school. What's important, What Richard Did asks, is that we understand the difference between binary understandings of good and bad, and why it's never as simple as making amends or admitting to an accident. Tough and unsentimental, What Richard Did is a superb examination of the thin line behind harmless recklessness and stark tragedy.
What Richard did represents that admitting to your mistakes is not always the greatest moral way out of turmoil. Richard's father understands and empathizes with his son that simply admitting will not solve his problems. This is shown through the performance and cinematography. The shot within in the scene where Richard tells his father that he killed Connor is on sticks and it is a close up. This shot drags for a considerable amount of time therefore allowing the audience to feel the pain and suffering that Richard is in. The close up allows the audience to fathom what the characters are feeling by seeing their facial expressions and the tight framing centres the attention on the characters emotions. I do believe that the scene did achieve it's meaning of displaying the character's emotion. But I believe that they could have included more close ups of the father's hands on Richard's head or a tear running down of his face. This would have shown the relationship between the father and Richard and therefore able to show the audience more of the emotion.
This film portrays a perfect picture of evocative portrait of guilt and mourning whilst also parsing stickiest notions of guilt and innocence. Richard keeps flip-flopping on the idea of turning himself in as he learns he's not a suspect, a wishy-washy belief that suggests nothing. It frees him, the idea of coming clean, but at the same time he understands the pain and suffering he would be causing his family and community by going away. Richard seems like he would do a lot more good out of prison than inside, particularly with the upcoming young kids he's shepherding through school. What's important, What Richard Did asks, is that we understand the difference between binary understandings of good and bad, and why it's never as simple as making amends or admitting to an accident. Tough and unsentimental, What Richard Did is a superb examination of the thin line behind harmless recklessness and stark tragedy.
What Richard did represents that admitting to your mistakes is not always the greatest moral way out of turmoil. Richard's father understands and empathizes with his son that simply admitting will not solve his problems. This is shown through the performance and cinematography. The shot within in the scene where Richard tells his father that he killed Connor is on sticks and it is a close up. This shot drags for a considerable amount of time therefore allowing the audience to feel the pain and suffering that Richard is in. The close up allows the audience to fathom what the characters are feeling by seeing their facial expressions and the tight framing centres the attention on the characters emotions. I do believe that the scene did achieve it's meaning of displaying the character's emotion. But I believe that they could have included more close ups of the father's hands on Richard's head or a tear running down of his face. This would have shown the relationship between the father and Richard and therefore able to show the audience more of the emotion.
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