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I found "White God Black Devil" to be very chaotic with all those immediate transitions between hand-held camera shots and long shots such that vivacity and peace was following one another after each scene. The camera was very dynamic. The dynamism was achieved through shadows falling on the characters, if not through the camera movement, in the scene where the male character was having meal. Then the chaos continued with the noises of people and the wind after the pilgrimage and cut in the middle, though, with a silent and long shot scene coming afterwards. One disturbing thing was the continuous attribution to religion starting from the sculpture of Christ and the first scenes with all those celestial optimistic sayings and crosses everywhere. I was very annoyed from Sebastian's such didactical speeches. What was the point, anyway? The male character was dragged from one kind of slavery to another kind. One thing that I found interesting was that those who had power at certain scenes were shown with their shadows: Priest in the scene where he told the hit man to kill Sebastian, in the scene where Sebastian killed the baby, and in the scene where the killer came to the temple. Was it to emphasize a certain thing about their characters, or maybe that was a coincidence which I exaggerated.
I found "White God Black Devil" to be very chaotic with all those immediate transitions between hand-held camera shots and long shots such that vivacity and peace was following one another after each scene. The camera was very dynamic. The dynamism was achieved through shadows falling on the characters, if not through the camera movement, in the scene where the male character was having meal. Then the chaos continued with the noises of people and the wind after the pilgrimage and cut in the middle, though, with a silent and long shot scene coming afterwards. One disturbing thing was the continuous attribution to religion starting from the sculpture of Christ and the first scenes with all those celestial optimistic sayings and crosses everywhere. I was very annoyed from Sebastian's such didactical speeches. What was the point, anyway? The male character was dragged from one kind of slavery to another kind. One thing that I found interesting was that those who had power at certain scenes were shown with their shadows: Priest in the scene where he told the hit man to kill Sebastian, in the scene where Sebastian killed the baby, and in the scene where the killer came to the temple. Was it to emphasize a certain thing about their characters, or maybe that was a coincidence which I exaggerated.