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The Importance Of Sound In Void

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Stanley Kubrick once said: “A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and emotions.” And what could be better than sound to alter people’s emotions and feelings? In “Void”, sound played such a significant role in the storytelling that you could understand the whole movie just by the sound of it. The importance of sound in enhancing our understanding of the story and its emotional impact on the audience is emphasized especially in the fourth chapter, the one about Diamand: a young girl affected by the disappearance of her father during the Lebanese Civil War.
First of all, the chapter starts with a scene of her breaking up with her boyfriend: the actions match the sounds produced such as the sound of the bike, the chair moving and of course their conversation. It’s followed by a scene at the bar. The background noise reflects the environment they’re in; loud music and people socializing. The synchronization between …show more content…

As a matter of fact, she asked him the same question three times, and there was a moment of silence every time she asked it, in order to make the audience wonder about his response and the reaction he might have. Some people thought he was going to kiss her, whereas others thought he was going to leave. So we can see how seconds of silence can affect the audience’s vision about what’s going to happen next, and leave them unaware of how they’re supposed to feel. Then, the filmmakers used the sound metaphorically when Diamand and Elie kissed and she started hitting him: the vague background noise was so intense and powerful that we could actually sense her pain, and the fact that her feelings and actions are not up to her; it’s rather what the absence of her father imposed on her, and what she has to live with for the rest of her life until she gets the closure she

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