Cinematography

• Over the shoulder, high angle shot with Laura in the centre – places her above the others which makes her seem superior and predator like, it could also be how she see’s herself. The people in the background aren’t as relevant – like a herd

Mise en scene

• Fur coat – predator
• She’s alone contrasting to the majority of others
• Clothes –  the clothes are bold and picking out clothes is a very human thing for her to be doing. It can be interpreted as her adapting to being on earth or her purposefully wearing sexually provocative clothing

Performance

• Women getting make up done – society standards?

Editing

• Montage and fragmentation – when picking the clothes which makes it seem as though Laura knows what clothes she wants already
• Montage of others – the camera shows the aliens view of the world and learns from others

Sound

• The alien is quiet which contrasts to everyone else being very loud (diegetic/murmuring/indistinct) which makes Laura seem emotionless and isolated

Gender

• Critique of cinema’s emphasis on attractiveness- The alien doesn’t say much but is attractive (objectifying women takes away their voice – Julia Kristeva) and the audience could interpret that if Laura wasn’t attractive, there’s a chance that she would have been treated differently. When Laura does speak, it’s often to lure men.

Notes

• The man with a disfigured face causes her realisation of humanity as he’s the first men that she meets that doesn’t just want sex.
• Laura has a role/job and gets punished when she stops