Luke

Supposedly it was Hitchcock who started using above-angle shots of actors to emphasize guilt or suspicion, or to make them seem sinister. It works particularly well when the shot is added into a series of normal shots...for example, he did this in Topaz, during an interrogation scene...everything is shot normally, but when a key question--"Who is Topaz?"--is asked, the next shot of the interrogated character is from up above, as he replies "I don't know". So the audience now assumes he's lying.


This is my long way of saying that the angle of this view of my son is what makes him seem sinister and malevolent (in reality he's only occasionally malevolent).