Gone (2012) deconstruction

Gone (2012) Deconstruction

Gone is an American Summit Entertainment movie, directed by Heitor Dhalia in 2012. It is of the thriller, drama and mystery genre and is about a girl who is overcoming a kidnapping attempt, uncovering the mystery behind it.

 

There is a scene in the movie where she is exploring her 'kidnappers' house. It is a dark, run down apartment which looks as if it has been emptied without much care. The setting is used as we know, as an audience it is a dangerous place the protagonist shouldn't enter. This further confims the genre of the movie as we discover the mystery in the apartment.

The colours pallet is black and green. This overall creates an eerie, supernatural feel to it and links to the protagonist's kidnapping as she has a trigger that gives her a flashback to her time when she was kidnapped in a forest.

 

It is slow paced editing, as the protagonist ventures into the house, pulling out a gun for protection. Done to build up suspense as we expect something to happen (ie. a jumpscare) as the character is guarded an prepared for an attack. 

 

In this scene there is no non-diegetic sound, making the house she is venturing in seem quite and exaggerates the diegetic sound of her footsteps, creating suspense.

There is also a flashback scene, to when she was kidnapped. It becomes fast paced as well as the character's heavy diegetic breathing, showing the protagonist's panic as she try to escape. This is a representation of women as we can see that it is a female victim. Which conforms to the common conventions of slasher-horrors as depicting women as the weaker characters.