I personally enjoyed how clip was in black and white, it really changes the vibes it gives off. The clock seemed to portray tension, for example, when the clock went off at noon in the house, as well as in other places, all the focus was solely on the noise the clock made. Then the focus came to a poster, which was about murder and a shadow of a man was on it while he was talking to the little girl. You can tell the mother is getting worried because she keeps looking at the clock. Then she looks down the stairwell looking for her daughter and yells her name from the window. At the end, we just see the little girls ball meaning she is really gone. Lang gets a lot information while being maintaining simplicity, subtleness and being natural. He seems to do this by minimizing outside influences and switching the focus from scene to scene. For example, when the clock rang, only the clock was focused on, nothing else. Even if one did not know the language they were speaking, the body language and facial expressions said a lot, which contributed greatly to maintaining simplicity, subtleness and being natural