Expressive movement unit 2

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Through the interplay of the camera and the sound design, a suspense curve is constructed that goes through three phases: increasing worry, short relief and increasing fear. The vector of the submarine’s movement (submerging, emerging shortly, submerging) mirrors the curve of suspense and its turning points mark the transitions of the respective phases, supported by a change in musical rhythm and the acceleration of the parallel editing.

In the beginning, the length of time the “forgotten” soldier fights against the masses of water battering the submerging submarine correlates with the increasing worry. The immediate decision to emerge and a short moment of relief follow. Next there is a prolonged submerge concurrent to and crosscut with the appearance of the approaching Japanese fighter planes, correlating with increasing fear. The respective transitions of the phases are thus accompanied by a quick series of cuts to various levers and depth gauges as well as by music that continuously increases its tempo in correlation with the vector of the submarine’s movement. This suspense device is underlined by a cut to a Japanese pilot in a heavily tilted cockpit, as if he were already in the middle of a kind of kamikaze attack on the submarine he aims to shoot.