EXIT review - 3

fORUM fILEM KUALA LUMPUR
The Film Forum of Kuala Lumpur

PATRICK LIM: EXIT
The Second Camera As Magnifier Of Truth

Interpretation by Dr. Anuar Nor Arai

The style of Patrick in EXIT is formal. He keeps the tone of the real very close to reality. Camera seems very gradual and juxtaposition of shots keeps the characters in situations without eliminating consequential space. Intervals and duration of time are always within the regions of real time. Images are explored by the camera through rational editing, and the field of forces in oppositions between the interrogator and the interrogated are very controlled within the impulse of their emotions and movements set for them. The feeling of place and atmosphere is very soft in Patrick’s EXIT. Lights and darkness are well distributed in diffused lighting to suggest that Patrick’s search for the grey areas of the human mind between black and white, between truth and false, are within the narrative of expressing feeling and ideas. Actors are pressed to imagine within the confinements of words and actions. It is within the physical confinement of imaginations of the mind between the two in the room that demand the art of falsifying each other. Patrick gets his narrative through without superfluous display of images. Visual movement is across space from full shots to extreme close ups, and in between are the medium shots and inserts of objects especially the cigarettes in the mouth, the lighter and the cigarette packet.

to be continued...