Blog #3: Relationships Between Shots

The scene I'm going to discuss is in a 2010 movie titled: "All Good Things." I have the movie on amazon so I can't provide the clip but it starts one hour and twenty three minutes into the movie. In this scene, the main character, David, gets his neighbor to fly out to California and kill his best friend, Deborah, who now threatens to expose the fact that he killed his wife.
The scene starts out with a long shot showing Deborah arriving to her house in a taxi. Right away, it switches to a medium close-up shot of Deborah where we see her face form a surprised/confused expression, giving us an idea that something important is unfolding. From this shot, we switch to a close-up of a Texas license plate on the car parked right in front of her house. We don't actually get a full shot of Deborah looking at the license plate but the switch from her face to the close shot of the license plate let's us assume that that's what she's looking at. The obvious detail on the plate is the Texas name, letting Deborah assume that David has come to visit her.
The next shot is her walking into her house and this time the camera is very shaky as it follows her throughout the house while she looks for David. The shot has a very continuous feel to it, not much switching except for one quick shot of her dog barking on the floor. The shakiness and continuity of this scene gives off a very nerve racking vibe, both the audience and Deborah are eager to find David as she walks through the house. The shot, along with the noise, of the dog barking only add to the nerves on the scene, with the barking overlapping with Deborah's constant screams of David's name. We then hear the extremely loud sound of the TV and the second Deborah kneels down to turn it off, background music comes on and it keeps building and building. It is the sort of music we hear in horror films just as something bad is going to happen.
From here on, we get a close up shot of the neighbor with a gun in his hand and the shot switches to his POV of the gun being pointed at Deborah's back. We can piece together that he is looking at her with the intention of killing her. As the music builds, the shot switches completely to David, in his home in Texas, approaching a fly on the wall with a newspaper, intending to kill it. As David hits the wall with the newspaper, we hear a gun shot instead of a squatting noise, and then a close up shot of Deborah lying on the floor with blood coming from her head. Here it was very obvious that the neighbor killed Deborah, although we didn't actually see it, and in a metaphorical sense, the way the shots were placed together gave us a feel of that it was really David behind her murder.