Love Me or Leave Me Alone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004ph1v

     I feel throughout the film "Love Me or Leave Me Alone" the directors primary aim is to show the audience a teenaged couple in a unique kind of relationship most likely different to other. I feel its unique as the director focuses the switch from such hate to love and how fast it occurs as the film is based on one day in the characters lives. The boy at the start shouts to the girl "I hate you" and at the end he whispers "I love you". I feel that in itself sums up the how huge the themes of love and hate apply in this short film.
     I liked this film as personally I have never known or witnessed a relationship like this for myself or in another film and therefore I felt I was seeing something new. I felt it was successful in dealing with its subject matter as the director had caught perfectly that the characters are puberty hit  teenagers who would most likely be going through so many new feelings in their young lives. I felt the director managed this as the characters, after their viscous fall out, go their own ways but in a day eventually and slowly become drawn back to one another because in the film there is a feel that they are very much a like and should be together.
     This is very well caught on camera by the certain techniques used throughout the film such as the constant shots from one character to the other. For instance when the boy lights up a cigarette, sitting at his home, the next shot is the girl sitting on a fence also smoking a cigarette and when the boy looks at the ring on his finger the shot after is the girl looking at her ring. This could interpret that they are like a married couple and therefore relates to the inner content that they are in love. I also like the approach the director had when it came to the very first shot as the boy turns and spits on the girl which I feel the director did with the intention to grab and shock the audience in a matter of seconds.