High Fidelity (2020)
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DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall
How is the effect of breaking the 4th wall different to voiceover?
AI✦Examines how High Fidelity’s fourth-wall break functions as raw emotional processing: Rob speaks directly to camera as though thinking aloud to a therapist, using the audience as a mirror for understanding her own relationship history rather than narrating events to us.✦
Listen to understand how breaking the 4th wall directly involves the audience in a character's emotional present.
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As part of our series on how filmmakers can directly communicate to the audience, we finally examine the most blatant tool of them all: when character look directly down the barrel of the camera… and thus look directly at us, the viewer. Chas, Stu and Mel take the craft tools/levers they identified in previous episodes and use them to examine the tv-version-of HIGH FIDELITY (“Top Five Breakups”), ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (“Attack Ad)”) and - of course - FLEABAG… →
"All the different iterations of this story is about Rob trying to overcome their very internal barriers."
— chas | DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall