Tommy’s Film Blog

When Wasp opens, we are immediately hit by the frantic pacing of the film as Zoe goes to fight her neighbour. This gives us a look into the reality of the lives of Zoe and her family, that it is often this chaotic, and that they never know what could happen to them next. It also leaves the audience on edge as we consistently feel as if something bad could happen at any moment, giving us an intimate look into Zoe's mindset, as well as the constant anxiety of many working class single mothers. This frantic pace remains throughout the film and becomes even more effective and poignant in the second half where Zoe is in the pub and leaves the children outside. The feeling that something bad could happen at any moment is amplified as a genuine threat is posed against the children as they are unsupervised in a dangerous environment. It constantly cuts between Zoe inside the pub and the children outside, with less time between these cuts as the film progresses, this style of editing create

 When we first meet Kilgore in Apocalypse Now, he is throwing cards onto the corpses of dead Vietnamese people. The symbolism of the cards shows that Kilgore sees Vietnam as a casino, and he is gambling with his own life for the lives of others. The hat that he is wearing a cavalry stetson, which both shows his dedication to the American military and also his backwards view on why he is fighting, due to the history behind the hat. The hat can also be interpreted as a cowboy hat, which is apt as Kilgore acts like a cowboy; he is arrogant, selfish and would like to see himself as "heroic". He is enthusiastic during this scene, and Robert Duvall's energetic performance that he is known for comes out for the first time, however seconds later when he is helping the Vietnamese who survived escaped he appears entirely the opposite. Kilgore soon comes across a group of soldiers that care crowding around a mortally wounded, dying man on the ground who is asking for water/ Kilgore