Shark in the Head

There are many prominent settings in the film Shark in the Head but a particular scene that stood out the most to me would be where the main character focuses on the newspaper. As the main character is focusing on the newspaper the camera zooms into the picture of a ribbon cutting opening ceremony giving the audience a first person perspective from the main character. We then see a small red ball appear onto the picture that begins to color the ribbon red. Then the red ball travels to a white background and begins to draw different figures; figures such as a sun, a volcano erupting, a chicken, and a car accident that is ultimately caused by the red ball in the middle. The background music complements what the red ball is drawing. For example, as the red ball is drawing the chicken the audience hears a chicken chirping and in the scene of the car accident we can hear the cars crashing and honking.  The sound of the cars honking and crashing along with the chicken could be in my opinion non-diegetic. This scene expresses the enigma that our main character is clearly broken away from reality and somewhat childlike. It proposes the idea of what exactly is real and what comes from our imagination in our lives. How much of what we know is real? The director of Shark in the Head deviated from Hollywood movies because Maria Procházková focused on a setting that elaborates on the idea of imagination. Procházková does this by creating scenes where the setting turns into cartoons symbolizing the main characters imagination. This particular scene does contribute to the visual themes of the film because it correlates with other scenes in the film such as the scene of the sidewalk with the chalk. Another example is the scene where the main character looks out into the street and imagines the faces coming at him.

This movie in my opinion through this scene is more focused on the style of the movie than the manner. This particular scene places a lot of emphasis on the props and editing of the movie. The scene simply focuses on the red ball that is drawing on the white screen. The audience can also notice that the only color that stands out is the red from the pill and the figures are mostly drawn out in black and grey. Throughout the film the camera actually focuses on the red pill a couple of times. At the end of the movie one comes to realize that the red ball we keep seeing is actually the main characters medicine. This is a perfect example of how the director connects the story behind the main character and the props, such as his medicine, in the movie.