Elfman and Condon combine admirably to deliver the shot composition, the pleonastic and diegetic sounds that run rampant in the film and finally the songs which form the backbone of the musical work that Chicago is.

In the opening sequence, the camera zooms into an eye and right through it into the decadent world of the cabaret of the “Roaring Twenties”. Soon after, a tracking shot is performed to follow the movement of Velma Kelly. This provides the respondent with an insight, albeit a small one, into the life that this enigmatic character leads throughout the initial sections of the film.

Being a musical, Chicago is filled with several instances of pleonastic and diegetic sou

The most powerful technique that keeps the respondent in the film’s thrall is how it forces the respondent to be caught in two minds; to indulge in the decadence and harsh satirical injustice of the story or to feel outraged at the way vice is rewarded and innocence is tossed aside and downtrodden in a complete lack of poetic justice.

Two main colours are used in the Halls of Sin in the movie. Red and Blue. Put together, these colours cause havoc to the viewer as they contrast so powerfully. Their effect in the film is no different. Red is used to symbolise greed, blood, misspent passion and evil while blue serves as a colour of serenity and innocence. During the song “Cell Block Tango”, the stage is bathed in red using a red filter to show the unabashed guilt that the murderesses revel in. however, for a small part, blue is suddenly thrown on stage as Catalin Helenski, the bastion of innocence on murderess row performs her small, but vital, role. “Uh uh… NOT GUILTY!” she proclaims.

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