Tango at first seemed like an 8 minute long attack of the senses, due to its overwhelming display of new characters and the repetition of the entire sequence. However after watching and discussing Tango I have come to the conclusion that this short film was the most inspiring out of a a range of different short drama pieces. The fact that every couple of seconds a new character is introduced it truly allows the viewer to constantly engage with the screen,also as the director has used such diverse range of people in regards to age and the activities they are seen doing it brings further interest into the film without your mind drifting from the screen.
Overall the basis of this piece is very basic, using only a singular shot of this one room, however if any other approach was taken for this concept for example close up shots etc., then the films impact wouldn’t have been as powerful. The room itself almost appears like a dollhouse decorated with small, undecorated, odd pieces of furniture whilst you as a viewer are ‘placing’ new characters inside this one room every few seconds. As well as this the use of layering each person into frame was superbly done given that there were no collisions or interaction between most of them, although such a busy scene each character has their own purpose and just enough of their own space to do it in. Then towards the end of the film your eyes start to register that slowly but gradually each character is leaving the scene and you are subsequently left with the same characters that appeared at the beginning.
In my opinion these choices made by Zbig Rybczynski are what makes this film very inspiring to me, as a filmmaker I aspire to always keep my audience engaged with what they're seeing as well as allowing my films to deeply resonate with them for a while, much like Tango did for me.
