Please choose one scene in Death By Hanging that you think exemplifies Oshima’s use of distanciation to keep his audience on our toes – keep us thinking about what’s happening, remind us that we’re watching a movie that’s demanding our active participation in its key questions, keep us from getting too wrapped up in any one narrative element of the story. Describe the scene briefly, and then talk about how it creates a distancing effect, and why you think Oshima is doing it at that point (that is, what does he want the audience to think/feel/understand/question when he uses that technique?).
