Streaming creators design direct address to implicate viewers in a character’s thoughts

Evidence

Beau Willimon and David Fincher conceived the front-facing cinematography as “soliloquy,” hyping the Shakespearean overtones and Spacey’s expertise in theater, but they also directly name its immediatizing effect: “He makes you complicit in an odd way … intimately part of the thought process of this lead character, because he could take you aside and explain to you what he was doing and why he was doing it and where it was headed.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 591

Categorization

• DEFINE: Front-facing cinematography as “soliloquy” is a concrete formal instance of immediacy’s direct address strategy worth naming.