Beneficial Shock!

Editorial full-page illustrations for article on the power of suspension in movies: Iconic moments where the time on screen stops, nothing happens for a moment and characters have to wait, and so we do with them. 

The clock approaches midday in High Noon, someone is going to die in a few moments. In M, tension and smoke fill a room in Düsseldorf, where mobsters gathered to stop an assassin spreading terror and chaos. In The Untouchables, Mr Ness nervously waits for a man at the station foreseeing the bloodbath that is about to happen. Deckard, the best of Blade Runners, waits for Mr. Tyrell in his majestic godly office.