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Suspect Zero... super grainy


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I just saw Suspect Zero last night, and I noticed that the film was extremely grainy, looking almost as if it was shot on 16mm and blown up for projection. Of course, I am no expert... I have come to expect that 'grainy dark look' in every serial killer movie because of Se7en, but in this case it seemed almost unintentional! Add to that what also seem to be ND filters used to make some of the daylight scene shots look a lot darker. Hey, that's fine with me, but a lot of the scenes don't really match very well. All of this leads me to think that these decisions were not really thought out or at least just not used too well... but that's just my opinion, and I don't want to diminish the achievement of actually shooting and completing a film, no easy task. Anybody else have an opinion? (uh oh, I asked for it! hahaha)

-Robert

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The director's last film, "Shadow of the Vampire", was shot in Super-35 using Vision 800T and was rather grainy -- maybe a similar approach was done here, although that would not be typical of Michael Chapman's work. I haven't seen it so I can't say if it's particularly grainy.

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