Thursday, 10 November 2011
Wallander (Firewall, 7/12/08, BBC1)
Dark, slow chilling music gives threatening and tense feelings. A fade into dark water makes us feel like we're in a scary place.
Overhead panning and master shot filmed in a helicopter gives us a view of the surroundings which are desolate and deserted making us feel alone, iscolated and threatened. We see the car and people walking quickly away, this makes us instantly think that something bad has happened there.
We are cut to the back of 2 feminine heads. This keeps the audience as to guessing who these people are and what they have done. We track the two, as we assume, women down the road before cutting to inside the car.
We now see that this is a taxi because of the license in the front seat. However, this is and the windscreen are splattered in blood, making us assume he has been killed or injured.
One of the girls hair is black and red and she is wearing a leather jacket making her seem more authoritative and dangerous than the other girl. She seems to be the leader. We now see the girls faces which are both emotionless and plain but covered in blood making us realise they did have something to do with the murder.We are then given a sharp cut to one of the girls holding a bloody knife in her hand, we then see their faces for the first time. The girl in the leather is towards the front of the shot with the other girl behind again showing her strength and power over the other.
There is a cut to the taxi again and the bloody hand on the steering wheel. This gives us another indication he has in fact been brutally beaten or murdered.
It cuts to an extreme close up of the supposedly dead mans face which is completely battered and beaten. However, when his eye twitches, we realise all is not what is may seem and he is in fact alive.
It then shows us a keyring of the dead man and what we guess is his son. This could mean the girls had something to do with the son and plotted revenge this way.
The next shot is of a bloody knife in the main girls hand finally giving us the confirmation that both of them carried out the attack. She drops it suddenly, possibly getting rid of all evidence. As the titles come up, they are bright colours and wording, completely contrasting what we have just witnessed in the first few minutes of the TV programme. This maybe to confuse the audience or give off a different image for the entire programme that we have yet to see because of the short first section.
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