Wallander opening sequence analysis

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Wallander Opening Sequence Analysis
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• sound

• Mise-en scene

• There is an airy music at the start of the film.
• When the 2 girls walk through the empty field
  they are heavily breathing. This makes the
  audience wonder what have they been doing that
  has raised their heart beat to an extreme level.
  
• There is an stink when one of the girl drops the
  knife in the empty ground.

• The two female characters look ghetto in the way
  they are dressed . For example, the hoodie and
  the outfits in total.
• The blade on Sonia's neck makes the audience
  think she is dangerous.
• The style both Sonia and the inspector talk have
  an major comparison. where Sonia seems to talk
  short sentences and in a ghetto like language .
  Where the policeman/ investigator speaks in a
  professional manner and calm tone.
• In the start of the movie the audience is
  introduced to the location and we can see that it
  is set in England in the countryside

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• camerawork

• There are various camera work used in
  wallander. One of them are a zoom at the start
  where the audience is introduced to the location.
• There are a number of extreme close up has been
  taken of the things in the car . For example the
  taxi drivers ID card, his face and hands on the
  steering wheel.
• The extreme close up show that the taxi driver is
  injured but however he is still alive as we can
  see his eye lashes and his fingers move .
• There is a mid-shot taken when the two female
  characters are walking and the audience are
  presented with the scene of there back as they
  walk away.

• Editing

• Various shot reverse shot is used as they are a
  lot of conversations are taking place. This is
  done to ensure the audience does not get confused
  in who is talking to who .
• There is a cross cutting when the police man gets
  out the car this is to show what emotions the two
  female characters have towards the police officer
  . However in this case they kept calm and the
  face expressions did not change. The two female
  characters seemed to be not worried.
• During the production title is spelt out the
  scenes that were shown was in blue and black this
  is done to show there is a mystery in the movie.
  This makes the audience want to go on and watch
  the movie.

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• What we learn?

• The taxi driver has a son.
• One of the girls name is Sonia.
• The time of the murder is 546pm
• The murder weapon was a knife.

• Questions posed

• Who are the girls?
• What are their connections to the taxi driver?
• Did they really kill the taxi driver ?
• Why did they confess?
• Why does she not care?
• Why does she say it doesnt matter ?
• Was the taxi driver actually called at random ?
• Are the girls part of a gang ?
• Why is the drivers ID card displayed and left
  like that ?