Analysis of
"Silence Of The Lambs" opening sequence
The first shot is an establishing shot of some trees, we know that the scene is set in a forest, because it shows in the bottom right corner "Woods near Quantico, VA". Slowly the camera pans down to a woman climbing a rope, the high-angle shot makes it looks like we are looking down on her. Enigma codes are created in this film because we are wondering why the woman is in the woods on her own.
There is a tracking shot following the woman we seen climbing the rope, it seems that someone is following her from the P.O.V shot of the camera, the scene is quite dark which makes the woman seem even more isolated. We see her climbing a "scramble net" on an assault course, we see that she is very sweaty, which make us think that she has been running for a long time.
We see someone running over to her in a yellow jacket calling her name, then we see that he is in the F.B.I. So we make the assumption that she is to in the F.B.I , and it turns out that she is on a training exercise.
The camera pans down and we see five signs on a tree which say "HURT, AGONY, PAIN, LOVE-IT" the fifth one is blank. this plays an important role, because it acts as a narrative hook, which makes want to watch the film and find out what the signs mean.
'Silence Of The Lambs'
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