Examples of:
Enigma Code
- Who is at the door?
- Why are they attacking this family?
- What happens to the little girl
- What happened to the father (Gerard Butler)?
- What case are the lawyers working on?
Action Code
- You hear a knock on the door, so you know someone is going to go downstairs and answer the door.
- The villain stabbing the man, makes you think the man is going to die.
- We see the little girl arrive in the doorway, so we expect someone to go after her.
- After the meeting with the lawyer, we expect the father to do something rash to get revenge against the men who killed his wife and daughter.
- After the whole attack on the family, you expect the narrative to follow the case on which this is based.
Semiotic Code
- The prosecution represents the bad side of the law
- The large court room represents the all theme of 'good vs evil'
Cultural Code
- We see little beads with letters on them at the beginning, which creates the sense we are looking from a child's perspective at that point
- The dad teases the little girl about winding up her mum
- The father looks forward to a take away dinner
- We see the mother try to rescue the man before she is also trapped by the villains. She is trying to save her family.
- When we see the lawyers trying to prosecute the villains, we know they share the view that murdering, etc is wrong and must be punshied - cultural code for the world.
Symbolic Code
- Good vs Evil
- One Man vs The Legal System
1 comments:
Excellent work so far, Alice. Your analysis is of an extremely high standard and shows excellent understanding of the theory covered in class. Well done.
Post a Comment