Reservoir Dogs scene

In the movie Reservoir Dogs, there is a very famous torture scene in which Mr. Blonde tortures a tied up cop. In the scene, the camera angles are used to portray the power stance of both characters and what their emotions are.
The camera angle on Mr. Blonde is a low angle shot indicating that he holds the power in the room, since he is the one torturing the helpless cop. However, this power is taken away from Mr. Blonde when he is shot by Mr. Orange who is thought to be dead at the time. When Mr. Blonde is shown about to die, the camera angle is a long shot indicating that he is alone and isolated from everyone else when he loses his power stance and dies.

The camera angle on the cop during the torture scene is a high angle shot showing how he is inferior to Mr. Blonde and is helpless. The camera angle also has close ups of the cop showing that he is frightened and disoriented and is also in pain (since his ear was cut off and he has been beaten). The close ups of Mr. Blonde show that he is enjoying himself watching the cop be in pain showing that Mr. Blonde is not entirely sane. Tarantino chose these camera angles to portray how each character is feeling and what is going through their minds. This allowed the audience to react more to the scene than if the camera angles were just omitted and shot with ony one camera angle.

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