Narration (Voice-over)
This is a narrative technique wherein a voice (non-diegetic) is used over images shown on the screen. Narrators can be either an omniscient, disembodied person that sees all,
or they can be characters that exist in the world of the movie,
sometimes narrating their own story, sometimes narrating others’
stories.
This short film also uses voice-overs monologues by both the father and son. The first monologue done by the son gives an obvious foreshadowing as he tells the audience that "we've always known that our relationship had been fated from the beginning..to end in some bloody reckoning", not only does this foreshadow what is about to happen, it also tells us about their relationship, that they have been in discord throughout their lives. We already know of the father's cynical view of the world and his hatred for his son, however, his voice-over gives the audience a hint that maybe he doesn't hate him as much as he claims it to be. He states "for the first time in my life, I recognized clearly where I'd seen this before" (referring to his son as he gazes upon him lying on the ground). This tells us that perhaps he had seen his younger self in his son, the dreamer who hopes to venture in the outside world. He sacrifices himself at the end of the video so that his son could be freed from him and their house which ties them down.
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