I picked to write about a scene from the movie called Being John Malkovich where John Malkovich discovers this hole in a wall that leads to a portal that drops directly into the brain of John Malkovich that has become a source of income for two friends who discovered it. The clip starts with a point of view from behind John Malkovich as he travels through the tunnel to the portal into his brain. The point of view jumps back and forth between what John Malkovich is seeing and his reaction to the tunnel itself. The sound creates an existential atmosphere that lets the audience know that an important event is about to pick up its pace. When the door slams shut and the sound of wind pushes the character to the final stage of the tunnel; we are propelled into a new reality where the audience is John Malkovich, looking through the point of view of John Malkovich. The atmosphere shifts to an upscale restaurant with the sound of chatter in the room, it is made clear that the audience is now peering through the eyes of John Malkovich with the illusion of goggle vision by creating a tight border of black in an oval shape. The camera begins at a slow movement pattern to create a steady starting pace to give the illusion of a calm and “normal” projection of space. As the nightmarish hallucinations continue to become more absurd, Malkovich realizes everyone and everything is him, he becomes more frantic and exasperated by the situation. This is shown through the progression of layers of audio, new layers of conversation can be heard that get layered over the previous conversations. The camera becomes less stable and more shaky as the pace of movement rapidly speeds up. The tone of voice also changes and the volume slowly gets higher even though the only word spoken is Malkovich. The images become more crowded and cramped with the amount of people and objects within the frame until Malkovich is thrown back out into reality where he literally hits the ground on the side of the highway.
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