Woman in black:
At the beginning of this film, Arthur (Daniel Radcliffe) Is shown to be very gloomy and does not show emotion as he has lost his wife and has never been the same ever since. You can see how upset he is as his does not show much emotion, only when he is with his son where he does smile as he feels safe with him and close to his wife.
Arthur has to go out of town to do some work at an abandoned house, there are many rumours about it but it does not phase him once as his facial expression stays the same. However, once in the house and experiencing different things, his perception starts to change the viewers can clearly see this through his figure expression. When first seeing the woman in black, he seems confused he stares and does not blink, then runs downstairs to check and look for her, he walks fast and his eyes shift around looking showing his first sign of fear.
Much emotion is shown through the people of the town if a child had died, their body would be closed up, wanting to be alone and they would clearly show emotion through tears, whereas Arthur would just stare and watch, with a straight face and not approaching anyone like he had been through that feeling and blocks it out as much as he can so he would not go through this again.
When reminiscing about his wife, you can see the despair he has in his facial expression, especially the eyes and eyebrows. Although he has no expression anywhere else in his face, you can see how heartbroken he is just through his eyes, he also looks away when talking about her to signify that when he thinks about her, he only focus's on her and nothing else.
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