No.43
Similar to No.35, No.43 is another external shot of the hotel that sees it buried in snow. The snow dwarves the hotel to seem like a regular ranch style home, but this shot shows lights on in the hotel. The time of day is still ambiguous, but the tone is beginning to get dark.
American History/Culture
“Make Every Indian A Tree”
This line is a quote from General Amherst to his (someone) giving the order to give the infested blankets to the Native Americans. In the letter, there is the promise to “make every Indian a tree”.
This is a constructed environment and the tree placement is intentional. They’re set up mimicking an image of Native Americans circling the school that holds their kidnapped children.
Domestic abuse
If the snowstorm is a metaphor, we’re in the thick of it now.
The Maze
Time:
Much of the establishing shots have been indicating time and a sense of pacing for the day. The amount of snowdrift makes it impossible, but compared to No.35, it’s beginning to darken.
Trees
This is a constructed environment and the tree placement is intentional. They’re set up mimicking an image of Native Americans circling the school that holds their kidnapped children.
Cabin Fever
A “no turning back now” sense is provided, given that the entire concave parking lot is now overfilled with snow.
Opening the chapter with an establishing shot that diminishes the grand hotel into a ranch style home carves out the message that this is becoming the Torrance’s “normal home life”.
Establishing Shots of the hotel
No.21
No.28
No.43
No.68
The sound of wind blowing is added.