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Cinema is a media that communicates based on sound and image. However, in reality most film directors deliver narrative in a traditional style for the structure of commercial film studio system rather attempts to 'produce' films effectively within genre tradition rather than to respect creativity of filmmakers. Such a current tendency makes it meaningful to pay attention to Gus Van Sant's recent films, from Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003), Last Days (2005), to Paranoid Park (2007), which visualize the director's painstaking effort to display the most suitable style for a specific narrative. This paper will look into the image and sound experimented in Last Days to present the death of Cobain, a member of the rock group, Nirvana.

time and space, sound, narrative, modern cinema, death, Gus Van Sant