The title One Mans Loss is very clever as it relates to the story directly, "One Mans Loss" suggests to the audience that it comes from the idiom "one mans loss is another mans gain" this connotes to the audience the contents of the film and coupled with the film poster gives them a very good idea as to what to expect from the film. As far as genre goes it doesn't strictly follow the rules of one genre and so is open to interpretation, this means its audience is massive as it is not confined to one specific group of people it appeals to all and all can respect it and its narrative.
In terms of narrative in this film there isn't all that much to talk about, this is a rare type of film as it happens to be a plot-less film. In order for a film to have a plot it needs to have main character etc... this doesn't, it has three characters, the homeless man, the jerk boyfriend, and the girlfriend, all are equally important to the story, and so there is no real plot. at the start of the film a mean wealthy man nearly hits a homeless man, he then proceeds home where he argues with his girlfriend who has just discovered he has been un faithful, we then see the homeless man step on glass and sit on a curb to pull it out, the girlfriend then throws the unfaithful mans clothes out the window of their apartment and the homeless man happens to be sitting below he then changes into the clothes and gets the girl. This story structure is strange not only because it doesn't have a plot but because there isn't really any inciting incident its essentially just the audience watching these two mens luck change.
The characters were represented in a very thoughtful and clever manor, as the audience we are supposed to like the homeless man, hate the wealthy man, and sympathies for the woman. They do this in a very clever way.
We dislike the wealthy man because right from the outset of the film he is shown to be horrible nearly running over the homeless man and cheating on his girlfriend, this makes the audience take an immediate dislike to the man as he is shown in a horrible light, however the smartest thing about it is that they showed him in a couple scenes looking remorseful which made the audience feel sympathy for him and in turn intensified the emotional reaction we had to him by making him feel human and not a complete monster.
We are made to feel sympathy towards the homeless man as he is shown as a victim, for example at the start we see him nearly get run down, and near the end we see him step on a shard of glass these incidents make us feel sympathetic to his situation which makes seeing his luck change all that bit more entertaining, this is because people love to see underdogs do well because the audience are made to feel like they deserve it more than anyone else.
We feel sympathetic for the woman in the story for the same reasons as the homeless man she is shown to be a victim and so we innately want to see her succeed as we feel she deserves it.
The camera work in the film is very interesting, it used a lot of natural light which helped to create and authentic feel to go along with the authenticity of the story, as well as that they used lots of close ups to really capture the emotions on the characters faces which was vital as the short had to create very strong emotions for all the characters and it had to tell the audience a lot through body and facial expressions alone, these shots helped to translate that.
In terms of sound there was a non diegetic sound of a piano in the background of some shots which helped to really create an atmosphere and emotion in each shot it was featured. the sound also revealed to the audience that the woman in the short was French explaining the reaction she had to finding out about her boyfriend as the viewer passes the behaviour off as normal in different cultures as her reaction is very dramatic.
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