Atmosphere

This scene creates a feeling of preciseness, perfection to the audience. It is constantly using numbers to explain how Harold's mind works.

- The editing is used in a Fibonacci style, using various sizes of him brushing his teeth ( and counting his strokes), to show how precise and calculated his life is.

- Dialogue is a main feature in this scene, with a narrator voicing everything Harold is doing and thinking, and is a insight to his mind. It shows how his lifestyle is numerical and ordered through lines such as "brush each of his 32 teeth 76 times"

Also the word precisely repeated often - "timed precisely by his wristwatch" and "precisely 11:13 every night, Harold would go to bed". Everything in his life is controlled by his wristwatch so there is that feeling of control put forward as well.

- Music in this scene is very interesting. It is quite upbeat, but it is also quite repetitive, mimicking how Harold's life has been for 12 years. Exactly the same all the time and controlled by his wristwatch.

The mood is very interesting, because there are two moods conveyed in the scene. The watch comes across through the dialogue as being happy and contented. While Harold rushes to work, the wristwatch is pleasantly "delighted in the feeling of the crisp wind rushing over his face". This watch is very much personified, the upbeat music adding to this mood. In contrast to the happiness of the watch is Harold. A day in his life is shown in this scene, he goes to work, comes home from work then goes to bed. Nothing dramatic happens in his day. You can tell this from the performance of the character, as he never once smiles in this scene. His face remains blank the entire time, like he is walking through life without seeing it. Clearly, although his life may seem perfect on the outside, inside, he just isn't living. His life is cleverly calculated, but despite everything working, and him never having any issues, something is not right. So the contrasting moods are really interesting.

The tones and moods show how numerical and "perfect" his life is, but he isn't really living. He is controlled by numbers, by his watch, and it is shown through the various techniques.