At the beginning of the scene I analysed there was a close up on a guy was lighting up a cigarette, the background behind him was in use of low key lighting, this clouded up my judgement on what is actually going on, as the camera angle pans outwards i saw he is standing in front of a load of cinema tapes, which hinted towards the burning down of the cinema.
When you see the Nazi walking up the stairs he’s walking from the darkness into the light, this could show a desperate struggle he is facing to try and reclaim any chance of being morally good.
When the character Shosanna is seen in this clip she is wearing a vibrant colour of red, the colour red and it shows danger,
Whereas the Nazi is wearing white, which is a colour of pureness but also has a hint of black to his costume for example; his medals are black (could show he had to do dark things to gain these accolades), a black collar and black sleeves, which I see as a power struggle to do with his past and what he wants t be like, this backs up my opinion of the struggle to be morally good.
When the two come face-to-face you see they are on two different sides, the door between the two separates and shows two sides, furthermore the rule of thirds backs this up, they are both on two different sides of the camera frame. Furthermore you can see he is in the light where as she is in the dark, this shows she as negative intentions while he has positive.
Shosanna tells the Nazi to lock the door, he is surprised that she seems willing, as he locks the door, she moves to behind the camera in the middle of the room, there is a close of up her bag which shows there is significance and importance, she takes a gun out of her bag, closes her eyes and shoots him in the back, I see this as ‘stabbing someone in the back’ because he wasn’t expecting it, when he falls to the ground he lands between the film tapes (which are in lighting) of him killing the Jews which I believe is symbolic for it being the cause of his death, but also he lands half in darkness and half in shadow which I believed was to show he wasn’t dead.
After Shosanna shoots him in the back she moves over to the window and looks into the cinema, because the movie playing is of the Nazi’s and he is the star, she looks at his reaction on the screen, he is upset and looks nervous and scared, at this point there is soft music playing, this makes me feel sympathy for the Nazi because it is what she is feeling and she now seems not to be any better then him.
When she turns him around he shoots her, a close up of his face where you can see his expression, it made me believe he didn’t want to do it but thought it as immoral to be killed by a Jew, when she falls to floor there is a long shot from a high angle which shows space between the two, this shows neither are better than the other and the way I see it is he was so close…but yet so far.
