Harry Brown Film Analysis

At the start of the film there is a reel of film companys and producers in a white sans seriff text on a black backround. This signifies vunrebility as the text is very small and blackness takes up most of the screen which links in with the intro. Then it cuts to some found footage style camera of some youths smoking in the subway. This connotes violence and signifies who the main protagonists are going to be in the film. Also in this scene one of the youths pulls out a gun and shows it around this signifies danger and foreshadows whats to come in the film. Then it cuts to a scene with a pov camera angle in which the youths are riding a bike and a woman is shot. This supplies anchorage to our intial thoughts on the gang bieng violent and unlawful. The next scene is of an old man moving slowly. From this you get the impression that he is weak and vunreble which is actually a contrast to how he turns out