Equilibrium - Attractive women is going through daily routine of getting ready in bright lighting and soft touch focus, this compared to the villain who is in a dark setting and lighting shows the binary opposition being established through the lighting to show how Rihanna the villain is the different to the attractive women.
Disruption - occurs in the lift as the song kicks in and there is a low shot of her dragging the trunk with the woman in further showing her as the antagonist, camera pans around her showing her expression as calm over the situation
Acknowledgment - Rihanna finds out she is not going to get her money so she smashes the phone and then there is a dutch tilt to show her setting fire to the car, this alongside of the slow motion of her walking away enhancing the idea that she is covering her tracks
Attempt to restore balance - by killing people and getting justice as she has a dead body under the water seen by the tilt to under the pool, she is now going for the husband, there is a slow zoom to the truck to show her getting ready and the the eyeline match to the tools for killing shows her determination, quick cuts after the knife show that a crime has been committed
New Equilibrium - Rihanna in the trunk as the camera pans across and zooms in to show her naked and covered by her money and blood to represent that even though she did get her money it turned her into a killer
Laura Mulvey 1975:
Discussed the ways in which the camera assumes the position of a male spectator and therefore encourages the audience to view films / music videos from the male perspective.
This is referred to as the male gaze and situates men as objectifies to be identified with whereas women are shown to be objectified. Think like a man, but look / gaze at the women.
The camera more frequently uses slow motion shots, panning and tilting around female character as a means of objectifying them to the male gaze.
Rihanna encapsulates the male gaze through the conspicuous close ups of naked women. The slow zoom around the trunk reveals Rihanna to be naked in the trunk, slow motion shots of naked bodies, slow pan across the swimming pool as the girls sunbathe in their bikinis
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