Lovefield

Lovefield is a 5 minute short film from French director Matieu Ratthe. It is a story with a twist in the tale and completely goes against people’s expectations of the audience in this deceptive film. By creating tension through use of both location and the use of the crow throughout, this creates the illusion of something bad about to happen. With the location of Lovefield being in a field the title itself shows that there must be some form of romantic atmosphere but still challenges the typical conventions of character. The leading male character has been dressed to look scary like a killer with the blood on his hands but it was purposely done to have the male dressed this way and the leading female to scream in the background as though she were in pain combined with the blood on the males shirt leads you to suspect that she was going to die and then with the silence used to think that she was dead. Then the crying of a baby gives the film a completely different twist as it was not interpreted by the audience for the woman to be having a baby in pain. The use of sound and camera angles within the film were impressive with this film because it was completely covering the fact that the female was in labour and looked as though she was dying. I felt that this was an impressive artistic film to show off the talents of Ratthe’s camera crew.