Return To Homs Film Analysis

Confidence and friendship relationship expressed by sound and image
From the Return to Homs and from Treeless Mountain Abdul Basset and Bin show their relationship with other people in different scene. For my essay, two scene attracted my attention where Basset is leading songs and dances (from Retour to Homs) and where Bin and her sister are sitting near the fire with their Grandma (from Treeless Mountain). I select these two scenes because they demonstrate the confident and friendship or concord relationship between the Abdul Basset and the crowd, also between Bin, her sister and their Grandma. Even if they are in different context, the cinematography and the editing done allows spectators to see similarity between these two scenes and to feel the friendship and confident relationship between characters. …show more content…
The scene starts by a long shot, where we can see Abdul Basset walking between the people and the sound of people’s acclamation to show their support and the camera follow his motion while he is walking. From that shot we can notice the confidence which Abdul Basset has about the support of people also about his security. Since the documentary is done in a revolution environment, where could be the government’s spies, it could be logical to think about a possible repression of the government to prevent the movement. However, that shot gives us the perception of a man who is assured about the support, and love of the crowd who surrounds him. There is a crosscutting at this