Plot
Williams stars as Seymour "Sy" Parrish, a mini-lab photo tech at "SavMart's" one-hour photo developing clinic in suburban Los Angeles, where he leads a depressing, solitary life. Every day he labors to ensure his customers get the best quality photos possible; his life is truly his work, for he has no one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day. Among his customers are the Yorkin family, made up of husband William (Vartan), wife Nina (Nielsen), and their only child Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy has done their photos for years and, over time, has developed an obsession with the family; he idolizes their happiness and affluence, memorizes every personal detail about them that he can learn, and finally begins to stalk them. During his lunch break, he secretly makes his own copies of the Yorkins' photos from the film negatives and then puts them on a wall in his apartment. Most of all, he fantasizes about being a member of their family, and sharing in the love he assumes they must feel. However, he is painfully shy, and his attempts to become closer to the family are gently rebuffed.
Sy discovers that William is having an affair, and his idyllic conception of the Yorkins as the 'perfect' family is shattered. He comes to hate and envy William, who has everything Sy longs for, yet doesn't seem to care. Sy soon finds himself in trouble with his boss, SavMart manager Bill Owens (Cole), first for an outburst in the store with the mini-lab's service technician, and then for the manager's discovery that Sy has been making unaccounted photo copies and giving away a disposable camera to Jake for his birthday. After being fired for this, Sy stalks Owens' young daughter, leading to a police report against him. While detectives Van Der Zee and Outerbridge (played by La Salle and Clark Gregg) are discovering Sy's obsession, he confronts William and his mistress, Maya (Erin Daniels) while they are making love in their hotel room, with a knife and a camera, and forces the lovers to pose naked while he takes pictures. Throughout the ordeal, William's mistress panics and Sy reacts aggressively, but does not harm either of them. After this, Sy discovers that the police arrived in the hotel and tries to escape. The alarm sounds and Van Der Zee pursues him while Outerbridge discovers a tormented William Yorkin and his mistress. As Sy tries to leave the hotel, he is finally arrested.
In the movie's final scene, set in a police interrogation room, Van Der Zee asks Sy why he terrorized the Yorkins. Sy indirectly reveals that his father had made him do "sick, disgusting things that no kid should ever have to do". The implication, confirmed by Romanek, is that Sy's father exploited him for child pornography, and this accounts for his loneliness and his obsession with photography. Sy cannot understand why William, as the perfect father, was determined to destroy his family. As the detective prepares to take his confession, Sy asks for the pictures he made at the hotel, which the detective has described as 'evidence'. They appear to be only shots of household objects and interior furnishings he took on a separate roll after the incident in the hotel (possibly an allusion to his statement, earlier in the film, 'the little things are that which make up our lives').
Mise- en- scene
i have looked at the trailer for the film one hour photo, after getting ready to start filming we have come to see that out film opening is going to involve a lot to do with photos and a stalker, this film is perfect to look at as it involves both of these subjects.
In the trailer we can see that the stalker is stalking a family and can get involved in their life's through developing there photos, i like the way that the photos on the wall is giving a creepy effect and making us feel that the character is not all there. The effect of the film is good as well as he is looking at the film this makes me as a view feel like he cant wait for them to be developed and that he needs to look at the straight away. At 1.15 in the video above the way that the camera lenses opens up and we go through it and go on to the next shot has gave us ideas of how to involve the functions of the camera in to our work and the way we can film the camera to give good effects. The quote that is used in the trailer "according to the oxford English dictionary the word snap shot was originally a hunting term" this is a perfect quotation for this thriller as it is putting what is happening in the film in to prospective, as he is more or less hunting this family down finding all there personal details and problems. This is a cleaver way of telling us as a viewer whats going on.
Costume
The costume of the stalker (the guy from the photo store) he is wearing a uniform which tells us staitght away that he works in the store and we can see that he work in the photo devlelopmentt if we look at detail of it, this is key to the film as we need to see to understand. As for the family we see what they are causally dressed we can tell that they are a middle class family, this is also key as we can now see that's there normal and that there no different from any other family, from this we can tell that he isn't doing it for any reason like for away to get to there money.
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