Schrader also makes a interesting visual choice as the tight frames box
the characters in confined space.
It's a great way to add
character in a confined space.
Not exact matches
The physical and verbal abuse
in these movies isn't nearly as explicit as Killer Joe, but Friedkin's goal is the same: to create a perfect storm of montage and
character interplay within a
confined space, one that culminates
in a disturbing loss of humanity.
Lifeboat isn't about minutiae, it's about big ideas and as big of
character drama as Hitchcock can do
in confined space.
His great talent is for cramping volatile
characters into
confined spaces and letting them claw at each other, as they did
in Bug (2005), his previous collaboration with Friedkin.
«When Tarantino decides to shut up shop and play out the majority of his action
in a
confined space, his use of the small
space is skilfully handled; he segregates the room into a North and South divide with race and politics adding to the magnitude of the
characters» wildness.
«The surprise for you as a reader is that when you get really far into this long book, you realize that the
characters you have grown to know so well and who live
in a very
confined space don't know each other all that well, and that's because they occupy different social realms.»
The environment design is pretty good as it accurately reflects a spaceship
in disarray with
confined corridors leading from one larger room to another providing some scares due to the lack of clearance
space to run away from enemies, while smoke from vents can obscure enemies that are just up ahead of your
character which combines perfectly with the enemy tracker to induce a horror tone.