{"id":6869,"date":"2010-02-08T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:16:54","slug":"red-riding1974-julian-jarrold-2009-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6869","title":{"rendered":"Red Riding: 1974 (Julian Jarrold, 2009): UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Lava Farmer<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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Red Riding: 1974<\/a><\/em> is the first chapter of the shockingly dark Red Riding trilogy.\u00a0 The story begins when a little girl goes missing and an eager journalist named Eddie Dunford<\/a> (Andrew Garfield) starts to find a link between this and a series of murders from not long before.\u00a0 Through his efforts to unlock the truth he discovers how crooked the Police really are, and how far the spread of their influence had really spread.\u00a0 Every time he starts to piece together the clues and find out who\u2019s connected to whom, he finds that everyone is connected to the police, leaving him to be continually brutalized with nobody to turn to because it\u2019s the Police that are doing the beating.\u00a0 However, Eddie is relentless and pushes forward with his investigations, perhaps to prove there is some hope for humanity.<\/p>\n

Director Julian Jarrold uses mis-en-scene in the beginning to create a feeling of enclosure.\u00a0 Most of the scenes are shot very extremely close up the point that you almost feel uncomfortable.\u00a0 Likewise, we given numerous shots of rooms that seem small and cramped.\u00a0 This boxing us in emphasizes the feeling that Eddie is getting boxed in.\u00a0 He seems to be digging himself into a trap that he just can\u2019t get out of.\u00a0 When we are given some more open shots of the countryside, Eddie is still entrapped and enclosed by his tiny car.\u00a0 Eddie even agrees that he feels trapped and at one point says to his lover, Paula Garland (Rebecca Hall<\/a>), \u201cWe gotta get out of this place\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lighting plays a crucial role in this film as well.\u00a0 The use of lighting indoors is very minimal and almost all light is usually coming in from outside.\u00a0 Very shady, smoky rooms create a mood of corruption and malice.\u00a0 The dark, wet, cement holding rooms of the police station reveal the true attitude that these wicked officers possess.\u00a0 The dimly lit club where John Dawson relaxes also reveals the dark nature of its inhabitant.\u00a0 The countryside on the other hand is quite stark.\u00a0 The blankness of the dull lighting reflects the blank opinions of the people around.\u00a0 Doomed to carry on quietly under the watchful and sadistic eyes of the law.<\/p>\n

By use of numerous facial close-ups the audience is really able to get a sense of who Eddie is, and how he perceives.\u00a0 As he untangles each strand of this web of lies he becomes more and more entangled in it and so do we.\u00a0 As the movie truth is revealed you\u2019ll find yourself just as frustrated as when it was all a mystery.\u00a0 The theme of entrapment seems to persist and even after this film is over you\u2019ll find yourself trapped by evermore questions, which may eventually be revealed if you can find it in you to watch the next two chapters of this brutally, magnificent trilogy.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Lava Farmer. \u00a0Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Red Riding: 1974 is the first chapter of the shockingly dark Red Riding trilogy.\u00a0 The story begins when a little girl goes missing and an eager journalist named Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) starts to find a link between this and a series of murders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}