The Arrival

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 The Arrival is based off a photograph of a young girl in a coffee shop, and we can clearly see the influence of that photo in the mise-en-scene, which, given that it is a single take film, is very important. The mise-en-scene has an old fashioned/vintage style, which is due to the fact that it is filmed on a set as oppose to a real place so there is lots of intricate detail (e.g. clocks in the back when she is talking about time etc.). Narratively, she begins with ordering a normal coffee, because she is seemingly sure about not keeping the baby, but then her choice of getting a decaf coffee at the end tells us she has changed her mind. It is a circular structure – she begins talking about caffeine and ends in the same way. This is reflected in the cinematography – as the camera slowly zooms in and then zooms out and we end in the same place that we started. There is also pairing throughout – when she talks about her biological clock, an older woman that looks quite like her walks past, and when she talks about the mystery man, the father, a couple walks past.

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