The technical superiority of the film is a separate subject of expertise and writing, but the fact that the shooting was done with a single camera and without interruption for each section strengthened its effect by making the audience a direct witness to what was happening. However, I would like to point out that 13 months of rehearsals were spent for this single-camera, uninterrupted shooting. The flawless performance we saw was made possible by determining the camera angles and the countless rehearsals the artists did. When we look at the actor performances, Owen Cooper’s highly convincing acting as Jamie is the result of being selected from among 500 candidates. The excellent performances of all the artists, as well as Cooper, are the result of the care taken in choosing the cast. The interesting aspect of the film is that the murderer is clearly obvious from the very beginning. Thus, it directs the audience’s focus from the question of “who?” to the question of “why?”. Avoiding conventional scenario games, such as the child of the police officer who studies at the same school being somehow connected to the murder, allows the focus to shift and remain on the question of “why”.
The messages given by the details
Among the many details in the film, the one that impressed me the most was that when Jamie opened his hands on the bed when the police entered his room, the seemingly random tear in the wallpaper was in the shape of a knife. This image, which is a reference to knife murders, which are common among young people in England, was also Jamie’s crime weapon. The same knife-shaped tear is seen at the end of the film when Stephen Graham (who also co-wrote the screenplay) in the father role, is internally reckoning with where he made a mistake, and while hugging his teddy bear, which represents his child’s innocence, he falls on the bed repeatedly and stabs him in the back each t