Soft Analysis
Soft is a short film that tells a realistic drama about a
group of delinquents harassing a family that doesn’t want to be burdened. The plot mainly focuses around a father that
is forced to confront his fears and tries to confront them in order to protect
his son. The film was directed and written by Simon Ellis and released in 2007
with a budget estimated of 50,000. Considering the big budget for the short
film, I suspect that this was a big contributing factor to the films success
and without a doubt this film looks like it could’ve been produced on a lower
budget due to the short length and video quality at times in the film. Soft has
won numerous awards, most notably one BAFTA film award which goes to show how
high standard this film is.
The many themes explored in this short film have a lot to do
with fear, anger, anxiety and humility. Soft’s genre is fairly obvious to point
out as it’s social realism with drama as it focuses around what occurs in the
majority of peoples everyday life. Throughout the film, there are many scenes
in which it leaves the audience feeling tense, always on edge about what’s upcoming.
Tension is a huge part of this film as it keeps us engaged and leads to
shocking events such as when the father’s son strikes the delinquents in the
head with a baseball bat.
The cinematography in Soft is outstanding as it is used to
depict different perspectives throughout the whole film. The aspect ratio and quality
of resolution always changes constantly when the camera focuses on either of
the two different social groups. I feel that the director had used this
technique to give an insight to the audience on the huge gap in the quality of
life from the delinquents and the father and son, this is a good representation
of how these people live and generates a view of what life is like between
lower class people and people from a middle class standpoint.
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