Movie review/Reseña de pelicula:Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

  Hello everyone

Frankie here and today I'll be reviewing the 60s classic The Thomas Crown Affair.

This movie stars Steve McQueen as the title character and Faye Dunaway as Vicky. This film tells the story of a bank robbery and the persuit of Dunaway's character to catch the mastermind in a cat and mouse game.

The film has a thriller vibe with suspence until the very end.  But the thing that for me tells it apart is the clever use of framings as a way to energize a rather slow moments of the film. The use of a revolutionary format that involves squares over a black screen depicting diferent moments of a particular scene at the same time, is used to accelerate rather uneventful but still necessary scenes. For example a scene in which Thomas is playing in a polo match where the director tries to convey that he is rich.

Additionally the use of the chess game as a metaphor for the whole film and the particular romantic tension, is very interesting.

The use of the spinning camera in 360 degrees is controversial. On one hand the way it is used to depict the exit of one car and the entrance of another is clever but for me in general in movies its use impacts my impression of them negatively, because it makes the spinning intoreable and forces me to look away. Sadly a kissing scene in this film does abuse this resource.

The use of color in said kissing scene is interesting because while kissing the characters melt into formless colors. Colors prime as they are used very distinctively to mark the characters and make them more appealing to the eye as well as to stand out from the backgrounds.