Inside Llewyn Davis

I adore this shot.  It's so symmetrical down the hallway that there could almost be a mirror right down the center, but then the shot is off set by the banister of the staircase on the left side foreground of the screen.  We have a long shot of Llewyn walking towards the doors at the end of the hallway.  To add to the symmetry we see here, the rug on the floor is a pattern that is also very symmetrical.  Even the shadows in the hallway are symmetrical.  The color is all very drab and using light blues, greys, whites, and tans are the only reason that the black banister really stick out.

This shot is very interesting because we have Llewyn standing in the foreground and even though he's nothing but a silhouette, his figure is still the only thing in focus in the shot.  It's also interesting how we can see his hand even though the whole shot is dark, but just not quite as dark as his shadow.  The light of the break lights are some of the only contrasting objects in the frame along with the lights of the semi truck coming out of the fog in the background.  I just love the way the light coming through the fog is just so perfectly bright that it illuminates the outline of Llewyn but doesn't brighten the shot too much that it changes the mise en scene.

This shot really stood out to me because of the way they use reflections in two different planes.  There's the reflection in the walls of the building itself, but then also in the puddles of water on the ground.  We see Llewyn in a long shot as he walks down the sidewalk towards the camera.  This is also a deep focus shot because Llewyn, the background, and the stage door in the foreground are all in focus.