Complicated Love

Iconography

The sepia footage is a clear flashback and the split second shot before it shows the girl is thinking what we are watching. The teddy bear shows the relevance to her baby and how she is feeling extremely scared in the life she has.


Mise en Scene

The film starting in the dark connotes that the relationship is in a dark place at the moment that we meet the couple suggesting difficulty between them. The clothing is very boring and there isn't much to it, the girl isn't dressed in feminine clothes and she seems a boring character. The setting of the old, dirty house connotes the ruins of their relationship and the desperation they are in.


Narrative

The first time we are introduced to the characters we instantly find out that something happened that was unexpected. The second scene starts with them facing towards a house which can show us that they are very serious about their relationship. There are parts of the film that show their relationship isn't a very steady one as we watch the boy buy drugs and the girl take a pregnancy test. Although towards the end I don't quite understand what happens to the story as it slows right down, but we do see the couple solve their problems which is the ending to their story.


Sound

The non diegetic sound that begins the film is similar to the last one with slow and acoustic music becoming louder which sounds very romantic, and then the voices singing 'Its complicated, its just love' is very stereotypical of a romantic drama as well as being male and female.


Camera

Once again its a hand help camera which is used for tracking as well as still filming, this is because it makes the film look real, which is a big part of the genre. The fade to the second scene is effective and calm which relates to the next scene of them standing together which connotes their united as a couple. The cameras placement at the end of the table with the mother and daughter is a clear indication of their relationship being very distant. The cameras pan around the streets is another way of us knowing we are looking at what the characters has just seen, which gives it another sense of realism.


Message

The deeper message to the film is that at a young age love can be a challenging thing and we watch the couple overcome a few of the issues that can be raised in teens life's for example pregnancy and drugs.

My thoughts.

The film wasn't very captivating and I feel that they didn't think of their story very in depth, they could have played with their characters emotions a lot more to provoke a reaction from the audience. The camera work was a bit shuffle and the scene in the shop was complicated because you couldn't hear much however I thought the flash back ideas were good along with adding the history of the relationship.