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Student Name Aditya Narvatsinh Parmar Student Id Course Film-100 Movie The Bad Batch (2016) Assignment Number Assignment #2

The document provides an analysis of the 2016 film "The Bad Batch" in response to a course assignment. It summarizes two key scenes from the film. The first scene analyzed uses low camera angles to show a party environment that contrasts with the film's theme, and cleverly incorporates diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. The second scene discussed is the ending, which surprisingly features romance rather than the expected action, though still conveys a meaningful message about humanity overcoming hatred.

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Student Name Aditya Narvatsinh Parmar Student Id Course Film-100 Movie The Bad Batch (2016) Assignment Number Assignment #2

The document provides an analysis of the 2016 film "The Bad Batch" in response to a course assignment. It summarizes two key scenes from the film. The first scene analyzed uses low camera angles to show a party environment that contrasts with the film's theme, and cleverly incorporates diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. The second scene discussed is the ending, which surprisingly features romance rather than the expected action, though still conveys a meaningful message about humanity overcoming hatred.

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Student Name :- Aditya Narvatsinh Parmar

Student id :- 200463977

Course :- Film-100

Movie :- The Bad Batch(2016)

Assignment number :- Assignment #2

------Problem Statement------

“ Write a response that provides overall an argument connecting a film’s form to


its thematic meaning, synthesizing your analysis with evidence from outside
sources.”
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“The Bad Batch” is a 2016 American thriller film which portrays an imagined

world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives in

sand directed and written by Ana Lily Amirpour. To begin with, my thesis

will specifically focus on 1-2 sequences from the film, and will analyse how the

aesthetic strategies in those segments connects the film as a whole and the

significance of Antirealism which is the foregrounding of the filmmaker’s

stylistic approach.

Originally, at the very beginning scene we come across a wide angle

shot which dictates two main protagonist a young woman (Arlen)

walking into barren wilderness…Thereafter, audience are shown a world

overflowing with scavengers, mad men and the tribe of tattooed muscled man

eaters which is led by a character named Miami Man…


Likewise, it is noticeable that the first half of movie is remarkably vigorous

film-making because the director tells the story as per imagination just how

she wants and moreover there are no dialogues in almost half of the movie

which eventually conveys life of inhabitants is much nastier such that it is

beyond words..

Although it was quite handy to judge that whole movie is captured by three

techniques aka Wide angle shots ,low angle shots & God-eye-view-Close-

up…Furthermore, according to me there was amazing use of diegetic and non

-diegetic use of sound which actually gives life to the film as a matter of

fact it was similar aspect which is mentioned at the very end of review

namely “A girl walks out alone into a man-eat-man desert wasteland” written

by David Rooney which splendidly explains the magnificence of soundtrack in

the film…However, it seems that the film is increasingly reliant on special

effects, and targeted at a younger generation. Neverthless, in this movie the

camera is the primary narrator…

In addition, it seems that director has the aesthetic approach wherein she

shows a dry desert with loss of water and humanity that ultimately tries to

convince audience about sufferings which will be faced by the people in nearby

future if they didn’t start preserving earthly elements i.e. water viz…

Furthermore, it seems that one or the other way director clearly wants to

aware observers about the present scenario wherein nowadays the kindness ,

love & humanity between each other is degrading vigorously due to which we

all might end up becoming cannibals…


Before visiting the debate I would like to add few things which were

perceptive like we can see that unlike other Post-apocalyptic films the

director shows signs of using straightforward chronological sequence of events

which makes it easier to watch & besides it appears that Screen Duration was

about 2 hours precisely & the Story duration was quite short i.e. it only

took around half an hour to reach main plot.

The very first scene that I would like to talk about is scene that was

captured with a Low-Positioned Camera angle wherein our protagonist Arlen

was taken to place namely Comfort after she ran from the clutches of

cannibals…So the viewers were shown a place in which people were dancing and

having fun known as dream land which is exactly opposite of the Bad batch

theme… No Sooner, we notice an extraordinary technique wherein audience

hears a non-diegetic sound which gives feel of thrill & suspense that was

accompanied by diegetic sound of D.J which give a feel of joy. Moreover,

after Arlen takes drugs viewers were shown exactly how an human eye sees a

hallucinated environment after taking drugs and there was marvellous use of

echoing voices with astounding camera shots and with few editing techniques

& also it can be spotted that during this moment a long wide angle shot has

been captured of beautiful night sky with a taste of non-diegetic sound in

the background that gives a sense of romance between Miami man and Arlen

to the observer…
The second scene that I would like to discuss is about the very end i.e.

climax. So ,it was probably one of the bleakest/funniest ending for the

viewers because since the whole plot consist of thrill/action it was quite

shocking to end the film with romance, it was much like of-topic with no

satisfaction for audience because it seems that there was no perfect

conclusion between relationship of two main characters…On contrary, the end

is quite meaningful because it shows how the humanity inside Arlen wins

against hatred & revenge like victory of brightness against darkness since it is

quite similar to the line quoted by Nelson Mandela i.e. “Love and compassion

are necessities, not luxuries without them we cannot survive..”

By the end of movie, I found myself stumbled upon pondering the fact that

it might have been worthwhile, if Amirpour might have just muted whole

movie instead ,just for instance Amirpour’s Vampire tale “A girl Walks Home

Alone At Night” was a voiceless monochrome film which actually did quite

well in Hollywood and the same particular exposure has been detailed and

reviewed in an review namely “Ana Lily Amirpour dives into the wasteland of

future America in The Bad Batch” written by Nicholas Laskin thus I think it

might have been much appreciated to have no dialogue film which might have

given the film an haunting effect in real as she was having skilful cast with

marvellous camera techniques…

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