Strangers On A Train:
At the start of the film we can see two separate men only from their waist down walking towards the train station from two different directions. One man on the screen is constantly walking from left to right, whilst on the other side the other man is walking in the opposite direction going from right to left. With this movment we can tend to feel that something is wrong, as the man who is walking in the wrong driection (right to left) is the bad character because he is going in the opposite direction than what we would usually think. The enigmas we get form this is who are these two men on the screen, it can be said they seem like two different ends of the spectrum, one of men is wearing white shoes and the other is wearing black/brown shoes, one man is walking right to left whilst the other is walking from left two right. Both going to the same place but in separate directions. Another enigma we get from this sequence is who is the good guy and who is the bad guy, some would guess that the good guy is the man in white shoes because the good guys usually were bright or white colours, and they guess the man in black shoes to be the bad guys because in films they usually assume the bad buy to wear dark and black colours. Also at the end of the sequence we get to where two men meet and start to converse, we can see a shot of both of their shoes, it can be said to compare them with black vs. white, the two seem just like two ordinary men until they start conversing and we find out one is in fact a famous tennis player and one is crazy rich man who wants his mum killed. A final enigma we get is what will the man do, for example will he actually kill this man’s mum and if he will tell anybody about what he experienced today. Another thing that happens in this sequence is the shot of the train on one track and its coming into lots of different tracks and being confused. This could be linked to the famous tennis player where he meets this one man and then he gets tangled up in his plans and confused about what he has to do.
This is an image of the two men's shoe's whilst on the train:
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