Breaking Bad - Series 4, Episode 7

Breaking Bad - Series 4, Episode 7 - Trouble Dog (AMC 2011)
http://www.putlocker.com/file/05F4750B02CB4FAB# (sorry about pop-ups, it's the only one I could find)

I will be analysing the representations of Jesse in the sequence between 0.32 and 2.05. We know from previous episodes that Jesse has a huge amount of guilt after having to kill an innocent man in order to protect his partner and he cannot accept it.
 The scene opens with a straight cut between the recap and a shot of the graffiti on Jesse's wall, this gives a very negative connotation that he is some kind of thug type figure. We then cut to a diagonal tilt shot showing the large amount of rubbish on Jesse's floor and then showing him in the left of the frame playing a shooting game with a gun controller, the amount of rubbish on the floor shows us that he has stopped caring about his house and cannot get over what he has done. The light in his room that keeps changing colour is quite low key giving a dark eerie atmosphere.
 Jesse has a very worried, perhaps scared expression on his face and the diegetic suspense music coming from the game shows how he feels.
 At 1.13 we get a great shot in which the camera is attached to the end of the gun controller, this shows that the gun is in control of Jesse and he is not in control of it, belittling him and showing he is not in control of his actions. This also shows us how much that his hand is shaking as he cannot keep the gun still, also showing us how nervous he is. These types of shots are used quite often in this series, there is another where the camera is attached to a shovel as he is digging.
 As he shoots an enemy in the game, exactly as the enemy hits the ground, we get a panning shot for a split second of Gale, the man that Jesse killed. This shows us that he cannot get the image out of his head and that he is traumatised by it. The panning shot continues back round to Jesse playing the game again with no obvious cut. We see him shoot one enemy in the chest and smile while wiping his forehead and then he shoots another in the head, we immediately get another split second panning shot to Gale being shot in the head by Jesse, the gun sound from the game perfectly matches when Gale is shot. In the next shot of Jesse, he looks concerned rather than happy like he did before he thought of Gale. The fact that Jesse fails the mission shows how he was very reluctant to shoot Gale and only did it because he had to, in a situation where he had a choice, he would not have shot him, this is what happens in the game.
 There is a pull focus shot, pulling the focus away from the screen and onto Jesse's face looking down at the ground in a disappointed manner. He hovers over the option to quit, but then decides to restart, I think this is symbolic of how Jesse made the choice to continue on in the business rather than quitting it after he was traumatised by Gale's death. When he is pointing the gun at the restart option, we see his hand is shaking profusely and this shows us that he is very unsure about what to do but as soon as he chooses restart, we see his facial expression change to a somewhat violent one. I think this relates to a previous episode where he was told to take 'no half measures' by Mike. He has made a decision of what he wants to do and that is carry on in the business.