Tarantino centres the film around the protagonist, Jackie Brown, during her struggles with Ordell. She stands out from Ordell's other girls that he keeps in separate locations around America in order to help him carry out deals. The effect of focusing on Jackie Brown is effective as it makes her story and personality stand out from the rest of the other girls. It compliments her strong personality as she is the only person who can stand up to Ordell.
Tarantino uses her looks and strong personality to portray Jackie as Ordell's weakness. The relationship between them has a kind of tension that connotes that they had a past together. Jackie getting caught by the police is a turning point where she realises that Ordell only cares for himself. The rest of the film is almost as if she is avenging other people that worked with Ordell and ended badly. We can see a scene in which Ordell murderess one of his workers. This scene is extremely powerful and steps away from Tarantino's over the top gore. In this scene, we are watching the car at a wide shot, the black car at night time is extremely ominous and creates tension. We do not see anyone's reactions, the audience are left to feel and interpret their reactions through the tension of the scene. When the audience hears the gun shot from Ordell, the audience is left surprised and the quiet noises, such as the car driving away, the audience are left surprised and are the only reaction made from the actions in the film.
Melanie is extremely oppressed. Despite her not being married to Ordell and there is no obvious arguments, it is clear to see through her situation of living that she is trapped and chained to Ordell. She rarely leaves the house and when she does, she is murdered. Where she lives is a representation of what little she can do is capable of in her life because of her ties to Ordell. It is represented through the size of the flat and the little variety of shots of the flat. This could be a connotation of the oppression of women in a marriage as Melanie is orientated around Ordell and her home.
The final paragraph had a very good point about the lack of variation connoting a lack of freedom but it could be more in depth. Is there anything else in the scenes that take place inside it that can further support this idea?
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