One Media From that I have previously written about is Criminal Minds, season 14 episode 11 called “Night lights”. On this specific episode , there are several elements from Dewitt Parker’s Logic of Aesthetic Forms that are presented. These elements are Thematic Variation, Evolution and Hierarchy.
Thematic Variation:
Within Thematic Variation Eliseo Vivas mentions, “the variation of the theme aids it in providing the striking quality required to shock attention, to surprise it, and to present it with some degree of difficulty, without which it would become lax through boredom”. This helps us understand the difficulty that this killer went through to get all of his victims, the difficulty that the victims go through to escape to only being recaptured and to be killed. The shocking part being that the killer wants them to escape so he can see them struggle in the dark due to the fact that he turns off all of the lights in the victims house.
Duration:
Throughout the episode, it doesn’t show us the audience right away why the killer is the way he is, but it builds up by giving the audience some suspense. The duration on how long it takes to reveal the killer and why he does what he does, is very important, it helps us understand why things happen the way they do, and how things happen the way they do.
Hierarchy:
Hierarchy is shown in this episode due to the dominance that the killer shows throughout the episode. The dominance that the killers presents throughout the show, at some points were misleading due to the fact that at one point, he holds up from killing a girl he captured just because she was comforting him with words. This goes to show the audience one or maybe some of the killers weaknesses. The girl at some point dominated him with words that reminded him of a memory that lead him to start all of the killings.
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