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Malcolm X : Open Your Eyes

Betty Saunders (Angela Bassett) thinks that her husband Malcolm X (Denzel Washington) has been betrayed by the Nation of Islam.

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close-up, cut-in, diegetic sound, dolly in, explanatory insert, eyeline match, following shot, framing, full shot, hard cut, long take, match on action, medium close-up, mise-en-scene, music, nondiegetic, over the shoulder shot, pan, set, shot/reverse shot, source lighting, tracking shot, two-shot, voice-off, whip pan

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Black: African-American, Black: Afro-Caribbean, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman

"Open Your Eyes" in Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1906

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