The Anatomy of a Nice Film Drug Journey Sequence

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There are at the very least two situations when a film may throw all logic out the window in favor of transportive phantasmagoria: a musical quantity and a drug journey. (And, should you’re actually fortunate, each on the identical time).

Certain, having your movie go fully off the rails when a personality partakes in a selection narcotic is just a little overplayed. However so is butter on popcorn. And guess what? I’m not uninterested in it but. Even when the character is having a nasty journey, drug sequences are at all times a very good time: they’re a enjoyable escape hatch right into a a lot bolder and expressionistic visible language. They’re a break from the acquainted rhythms of naturalism, medium close-up pictures, and the legal guidelines of physics.

So, I hate to interrupt it to you, however should you don’t like cinematic journey sequences, you’re an enormous ole’ sq.. The video essay under unpacks the assorted hallmarks of a visit scene, from the completely different approaches to “appearing excessive” to the ways in which the cinematographer can convey paranoia and a lack of management. The essayist well highlights the 2 (two!) journey sequence in Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy: one hypnotic facial melange and the opposite, a literal face-melter.

The essay additionally does an amazing job of underlining how drug journey sequences aren’t simply model workouts. Although let’s be sincere, just a little wildin’ out within the model division by no means harm anybody … besides perhaps Nic Cage’s melted face in Mandy.

In case you are delicate to strobing, be aware that the video essay under accommodates flashing title playing cards.

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Who made this?

This video essay on what makes for a very good film journey scene is by Karsten Runquist, a Chicago-based video essayist. You may take a look at Runquist’s again catalog and subscribe to his channel on YouTube right here. You may observe Runquist on Twitter here.

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