Seconds

Seconds used a lot of close ups and a lot of gory scenes throughout the film. For me, Arthur’s surgery was one of the scenes that had my stomach feeling queasy. Just the way the surgeons were so rough with his body during it freaked me out. The first surgery scene resumes the hectic feeling that we get from the beginning of the movie. An eerie feeling that we don’t know if we are watching dreams occur or if this is actually happening. The surgery begins with organ music playing and they show a mark on Arthur’s face that the surgeons made. They show Arthur’s covered body from a medium close up view and we hear the sound of scissors cutting and all we see are the surgeons’ hands. While Arthur is being worked on we get to see a few close ups of him in between shots of what his new face is going to look like. This scene had me a little freaked out because it reminded me that Arthur was no longer going to be Arthur. He is going to look completely different and he will never be able to be traced by anyone from his old life.

Through the surgery the surgeons are really rough with Arthur, it’s like that don’t care about him as a human at all. They are so rough with him when they are wiping his face or forcing things into his mouth. They don’t seem to care at all while performing surgery. At one point during the surgery Arthur starts making a small choking noise, the organ music that was playing starts getting rough as well. The camera starts rolling to show that this isn’t going so well. The surgeons then use scissors to put clamps and gauze in Arthur’s chest. The last scene shows all the instruments that were used during Arthur’s surgery in a pan of water. The main point of the scene was to show that these surgeons have achieved the role in taking the short route. They weren’t there to help people, all they cared about was making money.