Film opening:
- Sets timeframe (modern time, 21st century)
- Sets theme (Crime)
- Introduces main characters (Morgan Freeman and Brad pitt as police officers)
- Mood and Atmosphere (Somber)
- Creates enigma's
Opening shows the two main characters as opposites in personality.
Older Man - Asks strange questions, isolated, perfectionist, can't sleep (uses a metronome), lives alone, senior police officers (murders don't surprise him, used to them), dedicated
Younger Man - New to the area, looks at women, friendly, neatly dressed but not overly neat,
The camera switches from views of shaving to a murder, quite drastic difference, shocking. Soun starts before picture, sets the scene before showing one.
Opening title sequence:
- Quick flashing images
- Notebook being written in, pictures of crime scenes, words being omitted from a book, the word 'God' cut out very precisely from a newspaper, all neatly done.
- Crossing out eyes in a picture then the whole thing, sewing sheets of paper together, bandaged fingers, knife cutting fingertips, all look frantic and un-neat.
- The contrast between neat and unneat is quite stark and is unnerving.
- Reminds you of a derranged killer or stalker making a scrap book of deaths.
- Music with pictures is unsettling, close up shots of objects and working hands but the owner of the hands is not shown which is eerie.
- Different camera angles is distrubing because the audience feels unbalanced, could also be a reflection of the unknown person in the opening.
- Text in the opening is scratchy and flickers which further implies the unstable personality of the unknown person.
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