Re the second person debate, the closest analogue--and it would be only
that--can be found in those moments (e.g., perhaps, _Trainspotting_)when the
audience is addressed as "you" while, at the same time, the visual track is
clearly devoted to a POV shot. In that case, the voiceover must be read into
the image, diverting it from some character's POV to a kind of second person.
Any other form of direct address has really nothing to do with second person
narration.
Re the 360 degree pan: My favorite remains the great moment in Frankenheimer's
_The Manchurian Candidate_ that first reveals the brainwashing experiment on
which the plot is predicated. The pan begins by tracing a gaggle of GI's, on a
kind of dais, in a ladies garden club, but by the time that it's rotated around
we find (without the benefit of a cut) that this is actually a communist party
meeting and that what we thought we saw at the beginning of the shot was only
the result of suggestions planted under hypnosis.
Gregg Flaxman
Gregory Flaxman
Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
Dept. of English
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