The film starts with a shot of a forest from the top of a hill. Large bold writing is seen in the opening credits with white lines around each letter of text. I thought that this was very plain but affective for the introduction to a thriller. In the distance there is white fog. As I have said before, white often represents tranquility, but in the darker green colours of the forest the white mist may be seen by some as mildly sickening.
Running towards a hill from a distance is a woman. In the first few seconds when we see her, I remember wondering if she was running away from someone or just simply training to a higher standard of fitness. When she lifts up a rope from the bottom of a hill aid her climbing, it becomes apparent that she is training for something. As she moves closer to the camera at the top of the hill, I can get a better view of the clothes that she is wearing. She is wearing matching grey jog pants and sweatshirt with a hood on the back. She keeps running until she climbs over an obsticle and meets a man holding a stop watch. This represent superiority by the trainer over the woman who is running. He sends her off into a main building where outside there are more men trianing on a climbing frame. They are wearing a differant uniform to the woman, so this allows you to question about the levels of gender seperation in the thriller.
As the woman enters the building, it becomes apparant that the building isn't as previously observed; there are offices, kitchens and people from differant genders wearing either a navy blue or grey colours similar those of the woman we saw enter the building. She keeps on walking until she reaches the elevator with many muscular men. The doors close as the lift takes her up to a room with many offices. Cameras follow her as she walks into an empty office. The woman looks around; emphasised by a 360 degree crab shot. the camera spins around until we see many photographs on the wall of dead and bloodstained corpses. The fact that the photographs are small but there is plenty of them scattered on the same wall makes you ask the question of whether this is a trophy wall.
Running towards a hill from a distance is a woman. In the first few seconds when we see her, I remember wondering if she was running away from someone or just simply training to a higher standard of fitness. When she lifts up a rope from the bottom of a hill aid her climbing, it becomes apparent that she is training for something. As she moves closer to the camera at the top of the hill, I can get a better view of the clothes that she is wearing. She is wearing matching grey jog pants and sweatshirt with a hood on the back. She keeps running until she climbs over an obsticle and meets a man holding a stop watch. This represent superiority by the trainer over the woman who is running. He sends her off into a main building where outside there are more men trianing on a climbing frame. They are wearing a differant uniform to the woman, so this allows you to question about the levels of gender seperation in the thriller.
As the woman enters the building, it becomes apparant that the building isn't as previously observed; there are offices, kitchens and people from differant genders wearing either a navy blue or grey colours similar those of the woman we saw enter the building. She keeps on walking until she reaches the elevator with many muscular men. The doors close as the lift takes her up to a room with many offices. Cameras follow her as she walks into an empty office. The woman looks around; emphasised by a 360 degree crab shot. the camera spins around until we see many photographs on the wall of dead and bloodstained corpses. The fact that the photographs are small but there is plenty of them scattered on the same wall makes you ask the question of whether this is a trophy wall.
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