Cinematography

• High key lighting/ functional lighting
• Over the shoulder shot
• Close up of blood
• Close up of the Sam’s faces when they are about to fight
• Close ups when fighting
• When Sam 2 is searching, there are many mid shots and longs shots of him in the centre of the screen which feels claustrophobic
• Mid shot of Sam 2 searching under the counter but you see all of him – claustrophobic
• Long shot of them fighting to the side with lots of empty space make the audience see they are fighting over nothing and they have just each other and should be working together
• Close up of knife
• The camera moves down to see the knife rather than have another shot

Mise en scene

• Model – represents all of the Sam’s, could show how Sam could have been an artist, destruction is shocking, of a known place?, suburban and perfect
• Original clone is dirtier
• Chair – Borman in 2001: A Space Odyssey and anachronistic (out of time)
• Clothing – branding
• Blood – problem with clone

Editing

• Montage of him looking around and jump cuts – don’t have change in shot length – idea of fragmentation and fast paced editing

Performance

• New clone often above (taller than) original Sam (proxemics)
• Irony that they are fighting themselves rather than working together
• Chucks model instead of gently lifting it
• Not looking in the mirror (the mirror was an opportunity for Sam to analyse the moment) and the mirror image shows multiple Sam’s
• Sam watches Mary Tyler More as distraction (trash tv) – media to passivy the workers
• Both Sam’s attack from behind at least once

Sound

• Builds tension
• Beeping
• Minor piano comes back – when looking (music)
• Eerie noises
• Close sonic perspective of all the thing being messed with – claustrophobic
• ‘Eliza arrival in 13 (or 15?) hours’

Gender

• Not necessarily in this scene, but throughout the film, the women (wife and daughter) are seen as the prize/reward
• Possibly the male stereotype of aggressiveness

Narrative

• Discussing conspiracies and how the company is using clones to save money (hating of capitalism)
• Sam 1 is in denial – sticking to idea of ideal town and life he will go back to (model)
• ‘Eliza arrival in 13 hours’ – tension, like a bomb countdown

Ideology

• Sam 1 and Sam 2 have different points of view (Nihilism – Sam 1 believes life is meaningless because he knows he is a clone?)
• Marxist – worker has limited creativity and is not benefiting from working
• Discussing conspiracies and how the company is using clones to save money (hating of capitalism)