Cache so far was my favorite film that we had watched for class. It was suspenseful, thrillin and kept you from turning you head away from the screen at all times, due to missing a part that would tie the entire story together. Except even after the movie ends I’m still unsure of who was sending the pictures and tapes. Although I wish to know who exactly was terrorizing the family I like to keep myself guessing.
The filming of the movie was a bit different then the ones we had previously watched in class. Many of the scenes are shot in a way where the camera is still at all times without any movement. The camera faces one area or person and stays very still for usually an entire scene without changing any perspective. As an audience member some of it feels almost awkward in some instances as well as almost watching from inside a window to the outside. The movie actually opens and ends this way and I’m curious why the director chose to do this, but i found it fascinating. Another filming technique I found interesting in the film was when Georges would be on tv for his interviews. You can tell the director lowered the quality of the camera to appear as if the filming was done by an older fashion television camera. This is something that just caught my eye that I thought was really cool.
Beyond this something I found very interesting was the fact that there is really no soundtrack in the entire film. The only background noises in the entire film are other character speaking, or the sound of the city noise. This felt weird to me due to almost every film I’ve seen having some sort of diegetic sound. But this film was all diegetic which was new to me.
