Turner Good Night and Good Luck

In the movie Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney uses several cinematic techniques that influenced my perception of the film. His use of black and white, only indoor shots, and close tight frames added to the film in both positive and negative ways. The black and white effect gives the movie an authentic 1950’s feel and blends well with the actual 1950’s footage used in the film. Though this is a nice touch it made it harder for me to keep interested. I don’t dislike black and white movies but because Good Night and Good luck is focused mainly on dialogue I needed a visual aspect to hold my attention and the black and white did not. The only indoor shots had a similar affect. Because there were so few locations where the movie took place, and they were all indoors, it was hard to keep engaged in the action of the scenes. The close up shots added to the intensity of the film. The close tight shots focused my attention to the person speaking and made me pay close attention to every word. The tight shots also added a claustrophobic stressful affect to the scene which may be conveying what the character is feeling in that scene. In my opinion most of the cinematic techniques Clooney uses in this movie are not successful but I do think it is a movie worth seeing and I can understand how someone would find it intriguing and interesting.