Wednesday 3 October 2012

V for Vendetta, Use of Juxtaposition in the Domino Montage

The domino montage in v for vendetta is one of the best examples of juxtaposition in any film I have seen, it takes unrelated incidents of what V is doing with the dominos and what is happening in the world and puts them side by side. Cutting between the two effectively to make us form a link between the two. At the start of the clip it shows V placing the first domino
and then switches to a shot of parcel delivery lorries driving, the lorries contain the boxes full of the masks that V wears. This is juxtaposition as this is the first part of Vs scheme which is like the first domino. The shot then goes to a man wearing the mask robbing a shop, before switching to the government officials discussing the topic one of them says "this is exactly what he wants" before the shot cuts back to the man in the shop who says "anarchy in the UK". these two events are unrelated but by

putting them side by side it makes it feel as if the robber is ending the sentence of the government official. the next main use is when the official is speaking of his trip to lark hill, he says "it was as if i could see the whole thing, one long chain of events" the shot then goes to V with many many dominos layed out, showing that one thing has led to another and being a physical representation of the long chain of events that had just been mentioned in the narrative.

"it was like a perfect pattern layed out in front of me, and i realised that we are all part of it"
 is a quotation taken from the montage. the quote is spoken over the top of a shot of Vs dominos showing juxtaposition between the narrative and the dominos. there is no link between the two but we start to see the dominos as the perfect pattern and we make the link that every domino must fall for them to work linking it too the "we are all part of it" piece of the quotation.

"someone will do something stupid" is spoken by the official as the shot changes to a police officer shoots a young girl in a V mask. This makes us see the stupid act he just predicted as this shooting. "and then" is the last dialogue used before V is seen flicking over the dominos, this makes us feel that V is in control and has the power. the shots then switch between riots in the city and Vs dominos falling.
 this is the most impressive use of juxtaposition as the two scenes are completely unrelated yet we start to see them as representative of each other. the dominos falling, being representative of the order falling and anarchy taking over. 



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