Optical significance of science, witch craft, sound, and color.

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2006)

This film is an analytical version of an old wives tale. Generally what you can not see hence understand quickly brings fear or hesitation of the unknown. Where even a story of a witch, or a headless horseman can make even the most logical person cringe in the middle of the night in a dark forest.
This story appeals to me because there is a princess of Sleepy Hollow. This princess is interested in charms and spells to help people while she is signified as a natural witch with the use of visual drawings with pink chalk, which is the most basic form of witchcraft. The story uses scientific theory to help explain phenomena that is either rare or very odd within society. Thus the villain of the film upon the climax makes for an interesting subject.
Movie props in the film which emphasize optics include the over-sized magnifying glasses, contrasting colors of white and red during suspense (suspense bringing senses to a more heightened awareness through the perceptual vision), the two sided cardinal and cage,the use of the pentagram and other witch craft items. These use of cinema is in contrast to the real less defined phenomena of phantom senses when shared by twins as the villain of the film admits her guilt. I am also interested in how the Doppler effect and experimentation at the site the confession within the windmill plays its role with crude static electric generators.
Frankly, I am suspicious of Christopher Walken in this film and how the casting was selected and his friendship with Robert Deniro because he stared in Johnny Angelheart as Satan. These guys are probably casted and picked on purpose because like in Americas Most Wanted they need to be watched. How they got involved in the film industry like Sinatra in the music industry. That's scary stuff. Home grown character.