Reservoir Dogs
Year: 1992
Director: Quentin Tarantino
The movie begins with six criminals getting organized to rob a jewelry store, right before the operation goes horribly wrong. Quentin Tarantino then flashes a close up of one of the men bleeding badly in the back seat of a car, but the viewers do not know the cause of this yet. Next we see an establishing shot of a warehouse and once inside there is a over the shoulder shot between two of the convicts. They discuss that there is a “rat” amongst the group who sold them out to the cops before they even got into the jewelry store.
Through out the film we see flash backs of Joe hiring all of his men, and how the interviews took place. The director also throws flash backs of the cop that went undercover to go on the mission. Quentin Tarantino purposely set up the shots in he movie this way so it would be like a puzzle. Each time we are given a scene from the crime with a new character we immediately are given a flashback scene so we know the story behind the character in particular. This type of directing was done purposely so as viewers we could be figuring out what happened along side of the characters.
In the end we have a close up of the undercover cop who is about to bleed to death with the one convict who stood up for him to the others. The movie is ended with the cops rushing into the warehouse and a gun is seen fired, with no site of who was shot. This leaves the ending up to the interpretation of the viewer, making this movie a true drama.
No comments:
Post a Comment