Analysing opening of Inception

At the opening for inception it begins with powerful music with a strong drum beat setting a tense mood for the clip. Then the stormy sea may act as pathetic fallacy reflection the mood of the film via a violent change in weather conditions.

Then a character I seen to be washed up on the beach immediately causing enigma for the audience as they are wanting to learn how this character has got into this position and why. The distorted dialogue of children playing emphasises a feeling of disorientation and confusion for this character. Then there is another character holding a large weapon and filmed using a low angle shot to emphasise to the audience this characters dominance over the other immediately highly to the audience the two characters may be in conflict with another conforming to a typically conventions of a thriller having villainous enemies and heroic characters in place. Furthermore the fact that the character has a hand gun on his possession suggest to the audience his character is one to be feared and conforms to conventions of a thriller where weapons are often used to portraying a main characters position and highlights a sense of danger and violence surrounding them.

The fact that the group of men in very low key lighting suggests that the group is unknown and discreet. And the fact that the group are speaking of a different language than that of the main character elevate to the audience a sense of secrecy and suspicion among them being kept from the main character and audience.

The close up of the gun on the table may be a stereotypical convention of a thriller but the spinning top highlights a sense of enigma leaving the audience wanting to know how these items are linked and how they are being used.

Then the character is seen wearing scruffy clothes and eating small scraps of a meal while discussing the spinning top suggesting these characters experiences of this object are somehow linked. Then the character looks up and a low and tense music sting is heard as it cuts to the same character but this time in another situation wearing smart business dress and eating fine food, this has been done to contrast between the two lifestyles and leave the audience in a state of enigma as they are left wanting to know why and how the circumstances have changed. All characters then begin to discuss an issue involving highly technical terms leaving the audience in a state of confusion and interest to continue to discover the issue later on in the film.

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