Kino Eye - Trang Pham

I have read Kino Eye and I believe through the Kino eye, the author want to use it as a tool to create a perspective, an angle behind the kino eye that no other have seen before. Each aspect of thing around us, from shape to size, from people to other, each perspective is hidden with a meaning that viewing from one angle can not convey the entire definition of it. Through the kino eye, cutting and editing to create a passage, a word from the author to the viewers through visuals, just like how a storyteller deliver a story to a kid through his/her voice.

Nowadays, movies and videos are highly demanding in CGI and the effect artist to create colorful flashing effect to entertain the viewer, rather than focus on the hidden meaning that the author, through the kino eye, trying to deliver. Take one of my favorite movie "Requiem for a Dream" for an example: The movie is not category with horror, but through the repetition sequences of popping drug, dilated eye pupil, action of putting drug into the body..., it gives the chill to the viewers that haunt them without using the CGI effects of blood and gore in today generic horror movies. And what we understand from that repetition sequence is drugs give the body those effects, but through the close up shot through the kino eye, it creates the scary feeling rather than entertaining effects it gives.