The scene that I chose come from the film After Earth starring Will Smith and his son. The sequence that I chose is ambitious on paper. It's a conversation between Kitai and his father Cypher in a post-apocalyptic earth, only thing is they are not speaking face-to-face. They are talking via headsets, Cypher is explaining to him what the risks are going to be when trying to get to the other side of the planet. Another element is that Kitai is also recalling events that happened to him years earlier so as they are having the conversation they are also weaving in and out flashback scenes of him and and his sister. While keeping up with the continuity, the music compliments the dramatic content of the conversation as Kitai's voice raises and tears roll down his face the music takes a back seat as it fades out to what he's saying to his father.
It was extremely smooth (as most major hollywood features are) the flash back scenes were low in volume as Cypher and Kitai we still speaking. One minor thing I noticed when Kitai got emotional he seemed to be screaming at the air, made it seem a little awkward. In all actuality he was but it would have been better to see him direct his anger towards something specific. All in all a very modern, very well done ambitious sequence in this movie.
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