Brittany Garcia
Title: Cape Fear
Director: Martin Scorsese
Year: 1991
Cape Fear was also a favorite in 1991. The movie is about a public defender who acted as a lawyer in the case of an “alleged” rapist. Years prior, when the case was open, the public defender put aside and withheld some very important information from the courts. This information may have possible got him off with no charge, but given the info was never released, he was sentenced to fourteen years. The public defender withholding this evidence brings up a huge ethical implication in the legal system. The alleged rapist, when released from prison, wanted revenge so he went after the public defender and his family.
One shot that stood out to me in this movie that I had one shot that I hadn’t seen in many of the other movies I have watched thus far is the over the shoulder shot. In one scene, this was used effectively when the alleged rapist was in a two shot scene alone with the public defenders daughter. He was flirting with her and the camera would go from a medium close-up on him to the same on her then would transition to an over the shoulder where he would be talking and we could see this but we didn’t see his face, only hers.
Cape Fear ended with amazing graphics. The family of the public defender tries to escape so they get on a boat, not knowing the alleged rapist had followed them and was on the boat too. He tried to kill/injury all of them so it turns into a huge brawl. There is a thunder storm outside so the lightening that is striking places an emphasis on the sequence in the end of the movie. The graphics that transition from outside the boat in the storm to inside where the place is a disaster are great. Tilt shots were used during this brawl as well. For example, the camera would start down at the alleged rapist feet and then tilt up revealing his face. Or another example is when something scary is about to take place, the camera would start with a close-up shot on his face and then slowly zoom out and tilt down revealing a weapon.
I would recommend this movie to those interested in law and justice or who enjoy a good violent/suspenseful film.
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