A portrayal of elegance involving the drug use: white lighting showing in a close-up a display of only the needle and the drug objects, GLAMOUR, TEMPTATION slow-motion ritual of loading and shooting, dynamic and attractive image + VISUAL IMPACT crude scene. Sharp and slow music, provocative, very sharp, distorted (minor chords, harmonic minor scale) Feel: SEX, DRUGS, EDGY MUSIC.
No narrative built up at first sight, but then they are connected.
Angles: Dutch angle on the druggie's house, ankward shot in where he is cut in half on the left frame but his missing half is seen on the mirror. Low angle.
Close-ups on the drugs: Importance on them over their trivial car conversation
Costumes portray the characters (Lance's costume), and mise-en-scene: the set shows the hippie-like ambience of the house, conveying the sense of Vincent's addiction. Outcasts of society, piercing conversation. CONVENTION OF CRIME GENRE. (See the Dutch shot)
Editing showing both Vincent's pleasure face by close-up with the elegance of the drugs, also in close-ups. The Vincent's driving shots are shaded, portraying
CONNECTION/CONTEXT: "Madman" heroin which Mia shoots as cocaine after, overdosing and causing trouble in the plot.
Contrast in use of shots: Mid-shots showing Vincent and Lance in a trivial conversation, but Extreme Close-ups when showing the druggie preparing the drug.
SUBVERSION OF CRIME GENRE CONVENTIONS: Lance's place, a rather normal, mundane house, a typical environment, ahowing a more real scene.
-Not an exotic place: daylight, normal house, druggie relaxed and on bath robe.
-Vincent is not glorified, talks about someone ruining his car, and in an ankward moment talking about Lnace's wife.
-Relaxed, real-like ambience, no tension created on storyline, no conventional danger and dark-mood
-No heroism or morality (or inmorality) pronouncement showed, as the studios pastly asked for
-In the whole movie, not a single cop is shown, no law, only the "bad" side of the law is shown
CONVENTIONAL FEATURES: -Drug use, sex talk
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