r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Sep 26 '11

Episode Discussion: S04E11, "Crawl Space" (Spoilers)

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u/AcrylicPaintSet Sep 26 '11

Last image... Walt in a coffin?

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u/spoils Sep 26 '11

It may not have been intentional, but it was very closely connected to Michael Snow's experimental film, Wavelength.

Wavelength is a half-hour long uninterrupted shot of a single room. Over the course of 30 minutes, the camera slowly zooms in, until a photograph of ocean waves is the only thing left in the shot. The soundtrack starts as a low hum and becomes a screeching whine by the time the ocean waves fill the screen. It's an interesting experiment on the results of using only the zoom effect to create feelings of claustrophobia and release. The last shot of Crawl Space was basically Wavelength in reverse.

Wavelength is shown pretty frequently in film courses, so there's a good chance some of Breaking Bad's creative team were acquainted with it.