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As I studied for the midterm I watched different scenes from Chungking Express analyzing each on replay. Trying to figure out which scene was the probable choice for our in class analysis, I of course overlooked the one scene that was chosen. Luckily, this scene although one of the less chaotic scenes of the film had so much in content especially when focussing on elements of sound, mise-en-scene, and cinematography. A few things that were visually and soundly pleasing from it were how both of the two long takes in the scene paralleled each other from the start. Literally mirroring the close up to the fish tank followed by a slow pan to the left. And each scene placed back to back gave it, an obviously well thought out, before and after effect. The diagetic sounds of the fish tank in part with the green/blue filter (or green blue hues) used throughout the room both helped to emulate to us, that this man was in fact in his own fish tank. He being the fish, his apartment being the tank, excluded from the outside world, in a small space, almost as a sense of punishment, that he must finish each can of pineapple before he can release himself of the grief that currently captivates his world. He opens the window to place his feet up as he eats and eats, he looks out on the world, he is entrapped in his own manifested world of mild suffering.