He is a scientist and teaches physics at the university. No one has an explanation, and then Lee remembers the book that Hugh was sent by his brother Brian. Returning to the house, they begin to discuss what they saw. On the way back, they run into themselves, only with red sticks. After some time walking, Mike sees his house inside his wife – Lee. They carried blue glow sticks, taken from the box during the blackout. Tense music plays, and, along with the characters’ emotions, the situation’s horror is conveyed to the viewer.Īfter trying unsuccessfully to figure out what the numbers in the photographs mean, Em, Kevin, Mike, and Laurie head to that second home. Kevin opens the door, and there is precisely the same note that Hugh wrote. Suddenly, a stranger is noticed outside the windows. For some reason, he writes them a note and attaches it to the door. Hugh wants to return to the electricity house so he can ask him to use the phone to reach his brother. Where they came from, who put them there – no one understands, just guesses. He brought a box that contained a ping-pong paddle and numbered photographs of every person in the house. Thus, the viewer also thinks about whether what is happening on the screen is real. The characters try to justify everything that happens with scientific, plausible, non-magical, cometary explanations. Like, that house is the same and has a table set for eight people, and everything is identical.

Upon their return, they tell what seems to be absolute nonsense. The lights go out first and in the block, except for one of the most distant houses. Along with this, from the conversation between Em and Kevin, we learn that he needs to move to another city for work for five months, and the girl cannot decide whether to go with him. Amir and Lori (Kevina’s ex) are the last to arrive. Initially, in the house, Mike, Lee (who owns the house), and Beth are cooking. Listening to the conversation, the viewer gradually recognizes the characters’ names. The process was not interrupted, even if something went wrong. Most of the time, everyone improvised, and the director and cameraman filmed what they got. As I wrote earlier, the actors were given blanks, the central theme of the scene they turned on the cameras and told them: well, then you. This results from the fact that the film is assembled from cut fragments. Again, a sharp transition – the viewer seems to be pushed into an already unfolding conversation. The next scene is in the kitchen, where the characters are having a casual conversation and getting ready for the party. Birkin adjusted the obsession with one hand and showed the actors what they needed, for example, to open the door. This is the need to allow the actors to move freely around the house. One of the main problems is the lack of stabilization and the constant loss of focus. Only two cameras were used during filming, except for the dinner scene, where there was another camera. There were only five people on the film crew: 2 sound engineers, a director of photography, and director and producer Lene Bausager. Shakespeare used similar methods in his plays). The goal was to make them listen to each other and plunge into all this mystery (W. So every night, there were real reactions, surprises, and experiences. Every day, the actors received only a part of these notes, and they came prepared only for their character and had no idea what others came with. It laid out all the plot twists, reveals, character relationships, and pieces of the puzzle that were supposed to happen. Instead of a script, he had his “12-page therapy”, which he spent about a year on. He wanted the characters to listen to each other, participate in the conversation, and experience authentic, lively emotions of surprise.

In his experience, he wanted to eliminate the teamwork on stage, where each actor waits for the time to speak. For each actor, Birkin gave their character traits, backstories, and motives. He mentally divided them into groups and couples as if they were friends/lovers. For the role of actors, James called his acquaintances, but at the same time, they should not have known each other.

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