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Brady Corbet, L'Enfance d'un chef – techniques de manipulation
Brady Corbet’s movie, The Childhood of a Leader - manipulation techniques

Author(s): Andrei C. Şerban
Subject(s): Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea de Teatru si Film »I.L. Caragiale« (UNATC)
Keywords: Brady Corbet; manipulation; cliché; parable; evil;

Summary/Abstract: Brady Corbet’s movie, The Childhood of a Leader (2015), is one of the most surprising cinematic productions of the decade in which the debutant American filmmaker develops a remarkable acoustic and visual aesthetic that shatters the spectator’s horizon of expectations. By using a series of apparently conventional techniques similar to a mystery movie, the young director succeeds in manipulating the viewer’s prospects, avoiding the clichés of a violent film, in order to create not just an intelligent traumatic main character, but also a dazzling parable on the universal Evil.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 18-23
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French