Analyzing Sound and Flashbacks in Film: The Ring and More
The Ring: Analysis of Flashbacks and Sound
The Ring. Minute 20:36 – 21:10. Ellipsis: The Naomi scene, where she goes from the office to the cabin to see the video, included deleted moments. The director felt there was no need to show the entire scene. This is a temporary manipulation called Ellipsis.
Flashbacks: Blood and Water
Minute 23:44 – 56:13 from the horse’s death. Two scenes are filmed with different but common elements: blood and water. One of the similarities is that the flashbacks (original video) are shot in color, but in dark and gray tones (almost like shooting in black and white).
Flashbacks: The Chair
Minute 23:48 – 1:18:15 Flashbacks of the chair. The chair is a feature (as furniture in the house), recording a new image in color.
Flashbacks: The Mirror
Minute 23:58 – 1:00:44. Flashbacks of the mirror. The difference between the black and white image and the color image is that the color tones are very similar to the concept of black and white; gray is dark brown, and so on. Reminiscent of the monochrome image. This reinforces the similarity of the two images.
Flashbacks: The House
Minute 24:09 – 46:03 Flashback of the house. This uses the same resource as the previous one: record a color image similar to black and white with shades of monochrome. The composition is similar. Then, insert the floor plan in black and white to enhance these flashbacks even more. This is one of the most important flashbacks in the film.
Flashbacks: The Fly
Minute 24:06 – 39:14. Flashbacks of a fly. In this same frame, a fly is inserted on the screen, a particularity that the fly comes to life. This nuance is a surreal, mystical force characteristic of the video and film in general.
Flashbacks: The Mouth
Minute 24:09 – 46:03 Flashbacks of the mouth. It uses an open mouth from which emerges a foreign element in a very expressive way. An open mouth with a thread or a similar element produces a feeling of strangeness and mystery. A widely used resource in the arts.
Flashbacks: The Nail
Minute 24:10 – 1:26:22. Flashback of the nail. This inserts the same level of black and white video.
Guilt – Minute 1:17 (leg) In this frame, we see a series of very simple elements that enhance the message (the wounded military parade in one plane).
Sound and Meaning
Minute 1:35 (scene of the wounded in the hospital) in bed = one clear example of the outside field, in which, besides the sound of cannon, brings drama and meaning to the scene. (the injured show the trauma of war to the sound of the guns)
Minute 7:25 machine gun. The sound of machine gun bullets replace the musical notes. It is an expressive use of sound in order to give a message: the cruelty of war and the human condition.
40:25 Minute putting stamps. The sound of bells doors bring a message of something funny and entertaining.
Minute 50:45 flashback sound. With the sound of a military parade and farewell, the doctor recalls the progress of your child in front. 1:02 min audio flashbacks. Charter. The protagonist reads memory recalling the letter that has been in the trenches.
The Testament of Dr. Mabousse. Minute 32:21 (fritzalang) In this scene, the sound of the depth of Clackson mutes the sound of shooting. This resource provides Fritzlang suspense and intrigue to the scene of the murder. By silencing the murderer shot his identity.
1:52 min (Clackson) In this scene, the sound of Clackson joins the soundtrack (suspense music). This action makes the suspense of the scene and gives it a great expressiveness.
Expressionism and Surrealism
Minute 59:41 expressionism. Expressionism: This scene images and sound are expressionist in nature. Dog is not a narrative; it is a series of repulsive scenes that strike the viewer’s sensibility, is simply the product of surrealism. From poetry and art, surreal film retains many of its major reasons for setting aside all aesthetic and moral principle, the dream fantasy, unscrupulous and cruel humor, lyrical eroticism, the deliberate confusion of time and different spaces. Its filmmakers are using it to shock bourgeois society and exterminate a mean and sordid. It gives the images a value in themselves, using fade, fast, slow, flat seams between film and arbitrary sequences.