Movie Analysis: Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas:
Have you ever hit rock bottom and wanted just to run away and change your identity? Nicholas Cage did just so when he left his professional career to drink his life away and hide under sorrows of his sadness all in the small town of Las Vegas. While on his drinking binge he becomes desperate for love but could felling in love better him or worsen his alcohol problem? It's all in a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
Ben Sanders (Nicholas Cage) a Hollywood screenwriter who's alcoholism costed him his career, friends, and family.With absolutely nothing else to life for he packs up his belongings and moves to Las Vegas to drink his life away. As he spends his first night on the Vegas strip, he nearly runs …show more content…
The lighting was bright, and the music was a little wild in a sense that it was going to be full of action and party leading into the next scene. Shot angles were taken of Ben in a circular motion allowing the viewer to see his emotion of moving out to Vegas. Another scene that stood out was when Ben and Sera were falling for each other. The lighting became more dim and intimate with screen shot focusing on the emotions they share with one another, the sound is more of a light-toned sound for a slower mood of intimacy. The last and final scene that caught my eye was the part that Ben passed away. It was more of a sudden and caught off guard scene that left me as a viewer empty handed with thoughts. The lighting was dim as well with no music at all allowing the viewers to have an open mind and wonder what would happen next. Because it was so sudden, the camera angles were focused on Ben himself while fading into the emotions Sera was having to deal with at the same time. The end caught me off guard but throughout the movie I felt like the narrator would give hints to which would allow viewers that Ben's excessive drinking was leading him to danger and would soon take over his