The Ellington Kid is a comedy-drama, that follows a retelling of an unsuccessful murder in a kebab shop.
In order to create both a sense of drama and comedy, The Ellington Kid utilises sound especially through masterful use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound, at the beginning of the film diegetic sounds can be loudly heard, the sharpening of a knife, traffic. As the story contines, a haunting non-diegetic sound becomes more and more pronounced, this haunting drone score only seeks to accelerate the tension, ending with a standoff between the three kebab shop workers and the three stabbers, at this point the score being more pronounced than the diegetic sounds, however then cutting back to the present to create comedy, cutting off the non-diegetic sound, and forcing the audience to question the validity of the story they just saw.
The Ellington Kid uses two separate narratives that cross-cut between one another. The narrative set in the present is comedic, whereas the story itself is dramatic, especially utilised by the emphasis of the text tracks"a true story", "kind of", at the beginning of the film. Both comedy and tension arise from the use of an unreliable narrator.
Overall, The Ellington Kid isn't a terrible comedy, however, its dramatic aspects fail at most turns, only the ending being satisfying to any extent.
In order to create both a sense of drama and comedy, The Ellington Kid utilises sound especially through masterful use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound, at the beginning of the film diegetic sounds can be loudly heard, the sharpening of a knife, traffic. As the story contines, a haunting non-diegetic sound becomes more and more pronounced, this haunting drone score only seeks to accelerate the tension, ending with a standoff between the three kebab shop workers and the three stabbers, at this point the score being more pronounced than the diegetic sounds, however then cutting back to the present to create comedy, cutting off the non-diegetic sound, and forcing the audience to question the validity of the story they just saw.
The Ellington Kid uses two separate narratives that cross-cut between one another. The narrative set in the present is comedic, whereas the story itself is dramatic, especially utilised by the emphasis of the text tracks"a true story", "kind of", at the beginning of the film. Both comedy and tension arise from the use of an unreliable narrator.
Overall, The Ellington Kid isn't a terrible comedy, however, its dramatic aspects fail at most turns, only the ending being satisfying to any extent.
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