Buster's Mal Heart

• Opens with a very slow editing speed and no non-diegetic sound
• The colour palette is largely brown for the first act, creating a dull environment.
• Very orchestral, elegant music is played over the banal chores Rami Malek is performing.
• The music swells and we become generally much closer to the characters until we get to a crash and Malek is underwater.
• The music is replaced with eerie singing.
• The colour palette suffers a dramatic shift towards blue, signifying a large shift in plot.
• We see Malek dressed in biblical clothing, with blood on his lip, long hair and a beard. It is unclear when in the film this happens, retaining an air of mystery to the film. This mirrors when the other character said 'I'm the prophet'
• Critics' reviews are placed over wide, sweeping landscape shots
• Static is overlayed onto some of the shots, giving the idea that someone else is in control.
• The trailer ends with him blowing out a fire - certainly significant of something in the plot.