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Aftersun (2022)

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DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal

How can scenes where characters are alone increase our connection with them?

AI✦Pulls apart how language and physical distance work together to recreate loneliness--and why watching a character alone in public builds more sympathy than any scene where he speaks.✦

⏱ 1h 29m

1 NOV 2023

Scenes · Character · Audience

Listen to understand how solitude reveals character interiority and deepens audience connection

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In this episode, we explore the audience’s connection with characters through the lens of characters being alone… →

Films: Aftersun (2022) , Sense and Sensibility (1995) , The Equalizer (2014)

Scenes: Characters Alone , Scene Structure

Character: Character Depth

Audience: Audience Sympathy

"Just trying to keep him in sight so again it’s describing what is happening but the language choices is help recreating the experience of aloneness from an in public and in this case the distance from her father right."

— stu | DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal