How are quadrants used in Anna Karenina to create meanings and to tell a Characters story?

Figure 1

In figure 1 quadrants are used effectively to tell the separate characters stories. Figure 1 is the dance scene in the movie and Alicia Vikander and Aaron Tylor Johnson are set to become married but in this scene the quadrants allow for the different stories to be told. Alicia Vikander is looking at Aaron Taylor Johnson character with admiration. So this quadrant is telling the audience that she perhaps is in love with the character where as if you look at the quadrant next to it on the left Aaron Taylor Johnson is looking in the opposite direction which could perhaps be towards  keira knightly's character. This connotes that although he is with Alicia Vikanders character he does not reciprocate her feelings  towards him but he could perhaps be in 'love' with someone else and he is just following his mother's rules. This could connote that although they come from the same type of world they are very different in their life decisions and that although everyone believes they should marry, the male character doesn't want to conform to what society wants him to do and believes that he should be in control of what he does. The bottom left quadrant tells the audience why Aaron Taylor Johnson asks Alicia Vikander to dance and that it is purely formalities and how everyone expects the male character to behave in the era of this film. But in the right corner quadrant it shows Alicia's body language which is formal but at the same time it could be seen as hopeful body language as before the scene everyone expects Aaron's character to propose to her. Alicia's body language also reflects her facial expression of hopefulness and admiration towards the male character.  Although at the end of the film the male character could be seen as the homme fatale which the male character could foreshadow with his facial expression and the direction he is looking in. The background is completely unfocused which represents that everyone is looking at the 2 characters and that all focus is on them which is everyone's aims in the film.

Figure 2

 In figure 2 the image has all of the main characters involved and it foreshadows how most of the story evolves and gradually ends. In the top left quadrant  it involves 2 possibly contrasting characters but could be very similar just in different ways. This is because both characters are homme fatale at some point in the story. This shown in Jude Laws character as she pushes knightly's character away more and more and he causes her to destroy her social status and lose everything to be with someone else but the other main male character played by Aaron Taylor also becomes the homme fatale because he destroys knightly's character and she becomes so paranoid about him leaving her because she already lost everything. Also in the quadrant Law's character is looking at Taylor and knightly's characters as if he is judging them and always involved and affected by what they do.Where as Taylor's character has a look of ''love'' which at the end of the film could be mistaken for as infatuation. This different to the opposite quadrant because all the characters are happy and are with someone who they fought to be with which makes the male character and Knightly's character similar because they fought to be with their partners. Knightly's character  has a look of infatuation towards Johnson's character which is different to his facial expression as for him it has become like a job in his eyes. But towards the end of the film the characters  are similar as knightly's character becomes a femme fatale due to Johnson's character being a homme fatale which causes her to become ill and paranoid about him leaving her. This is different to the bottom quadrants as the body language reflects their facial expressions. Knightly's body language could connote desperation to not be left whether Johnson's body language could be seen as protective which is almost like he is dealing with a child not someone who he calls his wife. This contrasts Law's body language as the audience could view this as formal and almost disapproving towards knightly and Johnson's characters. Knightly's choice of clothing could also predict that in the end she turns into a femme fatale as red is seen as a stereotypical colour of danger and blood which could foreshadow that somebody dies in the end of the film.

Figure 3

In figure 3 the mirror makes the scene seem like it is in two different perspectives. The top left quadrant has a bright light which could be mistaken for a train headlight which foreshadows the end of the film when the main female character commits suicide. This could connote that she has already lost everything and that her own paranoia and mind have driven her to think that she would be better off leaving everyone's lives. But at this point in the movie it could possibly connote what she has thought or is thinking about doing. It could also connote that within every character in the film their is a certain darkness involved in them and that each character taunts themselves in different ways. This is  similar to the top right quadrant as her facial expression reflects pain and almost regret even though this isn't the part where she dies. This could possibly be the part where she realises that she shouldn't have gotten married at such a young age but it could also connote that she betrays Law's character and that she has deceived him and ruined his reputation which links back to figure 2 and the fact that she is the femme fatale and she has destroyed his life even after everything he has given her. By having her look in the mirror it looks like it is unexpected and her facial expression looks like she is scared which involves the audience and makes them feel emotionally involved with the character later on in the film when she does jump on to the train track.

In conclusion Anna Karenina uses quadrants effectively to submerge the audience and to tell a characters story in each scene.

The techniques that could be used in the thriller is the use of the mirror scene as this would create an obscure shot and allow the audience to viewtyhe background but it would be able to forshadow a ppossible event which allows for the opening to move on with the story of the opening.