The Book of Eli
The use of green filter, rubbish and lack of natural light indicates towards the audience that we are in a unnatural situation (the unnatural being a different atmosphere to any place on earth at this point of time). The environment is evidently a
post-apocalyptic wasteland, as life, bar a fur-less cat, is no-where to
be found. Our expectation is proven as the camera focuses and zooms on
into a gas-masked and unidentifiable individual, his bow and arrow
pointed directly towards the audience. His breathing through the mask
increases the suspense as the cat stares towards his/her fate. A break
in the subtle music precedes a slow-motion shot of the arrow darting
towards its target. The hunter casually approaches his prey, picks it up
and ponders for a moment before standing to leave. The convention of hunting for your own food is a major part of the action genre. Although the question of why the character would eat a animal that has been breathing in a dangerous toxin (shown to us by the use of a gas mask on their face). The simplistic opening creates a enigma as to the reason why the character has to resort to this primitive way of surviving. which of course causes the audience (me) to want to carry on watching.
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