Scene at the funeral for Meursault's mother an elderly friend faints, but Meursault is unmoved. Against this passive mood, the strong emotions of the other characters clash strongly. The murder scene is filmed in a deliberately unsensational way it hardly seems to matter. Surface of his photography is still, at most, passive. Visconti mutes his colors, preferring blues and grays, an occasional yellow or white or orange, and only a rare splash of anything bright. Little happening on the screen, it is happening interestingly. The hazard for the director is to show Meursault's boredom without making a boring film, and Visconti succeeds for the most part. The courtroom is enraged that a man could be so lacking in basic human emotion. The point is not so much that he murders a man as that he hardly seems to care. Meursault, Camus' hero, commits a murder almost absent-mindedly.
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