This past weekend I saw the movie The Woman in Black. This
movie was amazing and I would recommend it to anyone. During this movie there
is a lot of tracking. They want to you look at the main character and not be concentrated
on anything else. Whenever Arthur does to the Drablow house, there is a long
shot of the carriage taking him there. Along with that long shot, they are
tracking to show you how far it is from the town. They want to show that if you
go out there, there is no way of coming back easily. Whenever she comes around,
there are always shadows around the main character. There are shadows casted
over their faces to show that they have no control of what is going on. In the
first scene, you see three young girls jumping out of the window. You don’t
really see anything else in the room that they are in. You don’t find out until
later that the girls that jumped out of the window were possessed to do that
from the woman in black. At the end of the movie, you see that the woman in
black possessed Arthur’s son to walk in front of a train killing both him and
Arthur. You only see the woman in black through the windows when the train is
passing by.
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I really thought this movie was well-done for being a modern horror movie. It does a pretty good job setting up a creepy atmosphere and even if it does rely on jump scares, they are very well placed and usually not so predictable. Especially in the opening scene, when the little girls are having a tea party in their room. Just the room itself and the music playing give the viewer a very uneasy feeling, especially when the girls walk straight over the tea set and dolls, crushing them. Those objects are symbols of childhood and to see them destroyed is very unsettling. Also, with the angle of the camera, the viewer can see that the girls are all looking at something particular in the corner of the room, but it is unseen by the audience until later. When they jump out the window, the camera stays inside the room, letting the screams of the mother let the shock set in instead of relying on the sight of the bodies. I agree about the use of shadow to make the view focus on Arthur and nothing else. And when the long shot is used, it gives a sense of isolation, because it’s so far out and at certain times, he cannot leave, because the road is covered. Also with the use of shadow, the film plays on the concept of black and white standing for evil and good. The woman in black is always surrounded by shadow, for the most part, and the children are usually in well-lit places when they are taken by her, showing how innocent and child-like they are.
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