Return to Oz
1985|Walter Murch
Dorothy Gale follows the crumbled remnants of the yellow-brick road to the Emerald City of Oz. Shot from a low angle that foregrounds the disturbed bricks, she is a solitary figure dwarfed by the ruins around her, a subject in her own fractured fairy tale. This troubling sight is only a hint at the horrors Dorothy will find as she makes her second journey through the magical land. It’s an Oz quite unlike the one she (or the viewer) remembers, one bereft of color, music, and cheer.
