Coming Down The Mountain

Coming Down The Mountain.

The establishing shot clearly shows that there is an instant division between both the brothers whom are of similar ages shown with an aerial shot. Bens side of the room is to the left which is clearly a brighter and more playful surrounding with colours like bright red and orange similar to a childs room is also decorated with teddy bears. Parallel to Ben’s side is David’s side, which is decorated with dull grey and dark blue colours to contrast in the brothers’ personalities and emphasize the differences between them both.

A medium pan shows his calm face, looking very average and nothing stunting again contrasts with the inner dialogue of him thinking and planning the murder of his brother. This shows that David has had to keep it quiet and that it is more of an inner hatred creating the image of Ben as a victim. The constant inner thoughts of David voicing his hatred shows the power that Ben has over him, this challenges the stereotype of a downs syndrome person whom is seen to be someone that lacks authority and superiority however as he is constantly revolving round David’s mind it shows importance. This conveys a message that it is hard to understand what it is like to live and be related to someone with a disability if you haven’t experienced it personally, especially since all the anger is voiced through David’s thoughts rather than body language or dialogue. David’s height is always below everyone else’s in the scene to show hierarchy.

David’s character is consistently captured with tracking shots showing that his life is a long cycle of the same thing, everything shown in the shot. Ben’s character is captured through many close ups and with more screen time to emphasize the importance of patience when in contact with someone that has a disability. Many of the shots that Ben are in change to slow paced which  represent his thought process and life in general emphasizing his disability for sympathy towards the character. In the playground scene the surroundings are fast paced, David and his friend are talking about drugs, some kids in the background are talking about a fire explosion all around Ben, which are things that he wouldn’t be able to understand and this is made clear by showing a contrast of fast paced scenes around him and his face looking blank and confused. The narrative is pretty straightforward to show the routine-like life that they live in, paired with an average interior of their house and basic simple things that happen in their day-to-day life to show how common and insignificant their life is, also to show that this could happen to anyone.
Davids dialogue is very monotonic to emphasize the boringness of his everyday routine, to show that he is disinterested and spiritless again creating an idea of Ben being a victim. Parallel music is used to support the simplistic straightforward narrative, therefore embedding the point of a frivolous, common lifestyle to match Ben's plain, uncomplicated attitude.