This film was about a guy named Luke who is sent to prison due to taking the heads off of parking meters. He tries to conform to the rural, prison life and starts off as the underdog. Throughout the film, he gains popularity and helps the fellow prison mates to make life better at the prison.
When it comes to the technical parts in this film, there is a lot of variety. The opening shot is a tight shot of one of the parking meters and then zooming out to where the audience can see Luke screwing the top of the meter off, and then a wide shot of him surrounded by all the parking meters he ruined. There is also a lot of repetition of the usage of reflection. The sun glasses of The Man with No Eyes a.k.a Boss Godfrey, were often used with a tight zoom in and a reflection that uses foreshadowing of something bad that will happen in the next scene. There was an establishing shot of the prison before Luke was shown there which I also noticed. During the fighting scene with Luke and Dragline, where Dragline was shown from a low camera angle making him appear stronger, bigger and more dominating because he was winning. Luke appeared more vulnerable because of the high camera angle he was shot from. There was also a cool shot from the zooming out of Luke's mom's car/bed thing after they met. The camera zooms out and you can see his mother's face through the sheer roof of the car. The boiled egg scene reminded me of a frat-house party and also made me feel sick to my stomach. It turns out for the film, Paul Newman only consumed 8 eggs and threw those up after the shoot. Overall, this film did not disappoint. This movie was outside of my comfort zone when it comes to films and it was pretty okay because I had low expectations to begin with. It was a bro-ey movie. Pretty good. I can still feel Newman's blue eyes piercing into my soul, they are so pretty.
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May 2017
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