Coffin Buried Film Analysis

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Buried (2010) by Rodrigo Cortés is a film construct by only one scene, in the coffin buried deep down under the sand in a desert within a human Paul Conroy with limited resource.
Most of the shots using a dark tone to shape a tense atmosphere, in order to increase the disturbed mood and project to the audiences.

The first few capture of the shots is all about showing the narrow space inside a coffin, the unfamiliar environment, the heat and the emotional of Paul as well as how limited action can do in a coffin. Beside, this film using some of the props and camera movement to create an illusion of hope, for instance, the zippo lighter in shot 1 and the cellphone in shot 3 and 4, both props given the false hope to the audiences of Paul’s survival,
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In shot 18 and shot 19, the sand is starting to get inside the coffin, but Paul have nothing can do then lying down. With the Bird’s eyes angel in shot 18, audiences can spot how quick the sand is burying Paul, the limited time of Paul’s life, track in to Paul’s face the in meanwhile, which shot 19 become the climax of the scene by the sound from other end, Harris and Paul’s wife Linda, yet, the outcome is disappointment and irreversible. At the final shot, the camera close-up to the flash light, remind audience that the false hopes of it, and the with the company of Paul’s death, instead of having a long shot of Paul burying in the sand, the flash light become the symbol of Paul and cover in sand at the very

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