Taken 2

• big main streM 20TH C FOX
• Soundtrack - dramatic soundtrack - establishes thriller genre
• short cuts of violence/action/killing
• straight away idea of death - graveyard -flash cuts focus on violence
• montage editing
• range of locations
• changes from shooting to family hugging - shows theres an emotional side
• narrative graphics signalling drama and suspense
• pretty daughter - vulnerable - appeals to male audience mainstream - classic thriller setup
• eurpopean city
• high speed editing- pulling on action thriller
• refernces to old films so brings old audience back
• mans life at risk - establ,ished within first 20 seconds
• bake able actor - liam neeson -appealing to female and male audience - enigma of whether he survives
• favoured by audience

About time review

I really enjoyed About time as it veered away from the classic sci fi theme whenever time travel is involved.  This film involved time travel but in a highly romantic and comedic film, which is very different from other films that contain time travel.  In the film it starts as an interesting concept where he can just redo the little mess-ups in his life.  But the genius introduction of the consequence of his time travel, choosing between his wife and his father is what makes the film so intriguing and complex.  Also the constant spins of his time travel changing the gender of his baby and other problems, leads to an uplifting idea that you almost have to let everything happen naturally.  It also has a very happy ending which is more appealing, with the sentimental moments where he can visit his dad.  Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this film, as similarly to looper it introduces the idea of time travel that we can never experience, and shows us an idea of ‘doing-over’ situations, which is comedic and intriguing.

Looper review

Looper is an intriguing film as it presents an idea that we will never experience of time travel, and also contains the interesting idea of the future which I like when in films, as it is interpreted in different ways.  I especially like in films containing the future as it creates ideas of what it could be like as we have no idea at the moment what its going to be like.  Critics describe it as ‘a pleasurable trip into an interesting vision of the future’.  The plot and the idea of the loopers and time travel is complex and this is good and bad as sometimes it leaves you enticed and hanging on to every word, but sometimes the plot seems to veer off to a situation and idea that doesn’t make sense and isn’t complete, which leaves it boring and not understandable.  I like how the film doesn’t solely focus on the style of sci-fi and thriller, as it also introduces a romance between Joe and the women, as well as the emotional attachment to the child.  I enjoyed the ending where you think the mother dies, as this misleads you and creates a sad pinnacle that is quickly changed.  However, it is also quite different and controversial that the ending is not completely happy, and I would have preferred for Joe to survive however as shown in Joes sight of the future, this would have led to the mothers death.