Cape Fear
Director: Martin Scorsese
Year: 1991
In
Cape Fear, the beginning started off very slow. The film was extremely
corny. Scenes were shot, ending
with a blank red scene, trying to frighten the viewer, but added to being
cheesy. In the beginning, Sam and Leigh were having sex when the camera
switched to reverse lighting where the whites were black and the blacks were
white.
The
movie was rather bizarre, not one of my favorites. It has a lot of different
parts that need to be put together than don’t come together until the end. The
movie didn’t really pick up all too much until over an hour and a half into it.
I found many scenes to be completely unrealistic, especially when Danielle goes
into the theater for her drama class and sees Max there. She figures out who he
is and is frightened, but makes out with him and puts his fingers in her mouth.
Max also takes on three men in a dark alley. I can take a lot of horrible
acting, but this was just too much for me.
For
a film a little over two hours, it was extremely boring. The filming techniques
were decent as they took advantage of using extreme close-ups. The music added
to the foreshadowing in a corny way.
They
seem to use the zoom technique frequently to key in to certain parts and bring
emotion into the scene. The real thrill to the movie didn’t come until over an
hour and a half into the movie when Max was in the house and killed Claude Kersek
and Max followed them to the river, where he tried to kill them.
Overall,
the quality of the movie was extremely disappointing. I was expecting a the
movie to be a lot more interesting and scary from the start, not when its over
half way over. The techniques used for the film was strange, but effective. The
main downfall was that everything that happened was completely not even believable
and corny that it made it almost unbearable to watch the film.
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