Expressive movement unit 1

Alarmed awakening and uncertainty within the group is staged by the interplay of character constellation, gestures, facial expressions and speech. As relates to the character choreography, an image of uncertainty in the group is realized through a series of spreading forms of movements: gathering, formation, recognition of the gap and dispersal.

Walking from right to center, Sergeant Dane calls on the soldiers to gather, a retreating camera parallels his movement. The resting scattered soldiers—positioned in the main outside the frame—begin to move, underscored by the rumble of guns, and gather together. The soldiers slowly form a military formation in a line, whereby the slow and clumsy movements reference the tiredness and weakness of the individual bodies.

After a dialogue with no camera movement there is a short moment of silence—paralleled by the fog slowly rising between the figures—that introduces a situation that interrupts the formation: Katigbak is missing. Lieutenant Bently breaks the short silence with the distinct sound of loading his rifle and moves towards the right, followed by Sergeant Dane. This breaks the formation of the soldiers, who silently exchange meaningful glances.