Emotional Effects
In the movie "The Life Before Her Eyes", Uma Thurman plays Diana 15 years after a traumatic accident, as an art professor with a husband and child, who is still haunted by what she witnessed years before.
She moves back and forth from the present into the future and alternates between memory and imagination. The director uses montage and slow motion to crystallize moments, to allude a world steeped in memory, and a life that is experienced as an ongoing recollection.
She creates the atmosphere and the feeling the character is in through certain sounds and cuts and pairs them together to achieve that world.













