
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019movie

John Wick Parabellum Analysis. Parabellum is an expressionist work, using colors in the lights and background objects to represent the flow of action and emotion.The High Table, the unquestionable antagonist and keeper of rules, fails in the end because John Wick lives. Fate and rules can clearly be violated through sheer force of will, but the film itself fails to embody this message within its form and visual language. John Wick Chapter 3 — Parabellum is a product of properly following cinematic rules, a testament to the virtue of conformity.
Cinematographer Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF Unit photography by Niko Tavernise. All images courtesy of Lionsgate. One or more of the following adjectives may cross viewers’ minds while watching John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: violent, colorful, theatrical, balletic, polished, baroque. Though reducing the film — photographed by Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF and directed by Chad Stahelski — to ...