At the start of Ratcatcher we see an abstract image which is hard to understand and distorted. The sound is a main influence on this effect. We hear a distant noise of what could be children on a playground but because it's in the background a faint it doesn't seem important to the boy or is outside the room. We also hear a diagetic sound which could be in his head. This makes us question whether we are hearing sound as him or as an outsider watching him. There's a real abrupt change when it moves on to the next shot, there is a harsh short sound of the slap which brings us out of a sort of trance and into reality. This is a clear foreground and ambient sound contrasting to the previous distorted sound and has been exaggerated. Sound is used to tell us whether we are watching something from a distance as in Ratcatcher we see the boys playing from a window and the outside sound is muffled and faint and we hear noises from inside the room. This contrast to when we see a close up because the sound is clear and louder. Certain sounds can be exaggerated to empathise the importance of what's happening for example in Ratcatcher when the boy pulls out his trousers as an act of defiance against the mother and the splashing in the water which hints at the boys deaths.
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