Isn’t the lighting in the movie “August: Osage County” great?

The nearly twenty-minute dinner scene in "August: Osage County" is undoubtedly the highlight of the entire movie. We usually think that it is a very challenging thing for more than three actors to appear in the same scene, but in this movie, it is even more difficult to shoot a dinner scene with ten protagonists sitting in a circle. . How to grasp the positional relationship of actors well tests the director's control over scene scheduling. In this scene, although there are many light sources, and there is a lot of natural light from the window to blend the high-contrast effect and weaken the artificiality, the lighting design also contains a lot of profound meaning - with the mother Violet sitting in the host seat. Headed by him, the other female members of the family were all dressed in black and stood close together. The chandelier above their heads became the main light source, while the clothing colors of the male characters occupying the other end of the table were relatively brighter. Doors and windows behind also bring in more natural light. The alienation between men and women is palpable. In such a closed indoor space, the atmosphere of the dinner seemed depressing, uneasy, and various contradictions were ready to arise. Godard once said: The most natural editing is "line of sight cutting".