Shutter Island is all about a man who believes that he is a policeman detectuve to find out information about a psychiatric ward although the spin is that he actually is a patient about the ward and halucinates about the whole thing.The opening sequence begins with a fade into a dark wet dungeon. The use of colour of the darkness of the scene and the use of mise en scene of the dungeon type place this indicates already to the audience the genre of what the film may be. The shot goes quickly into a spin shot of a stair case which makes it seem as if you are spinning and makes it a little confusing, this also fits in well with the actual storyline as its all about a man stuck in an illness believeing he is someone else so he is confused. The titles are flashing throughout the opening sequence and are in bold red and the colour red is associated with blood and death which also helps the audience know what type of film this may be and the genre. The suspense music which builds up until the scene is in the day really creates a lot of tension and I think it is a really good way of opening a sequence. There is fire used in the opening sequence and lighting of a match which also can show the events which may occur and fire can mean danger so this creates even more tension in this opening sequence. The titles are going throughout the film which is common in thriller films.
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