Film Analysis

Film Analysis

The first film I have chosen is the 2006 R rated “The Omen”. This film was shot in Prague and Czech Republic. This film was written by David Seltzer and was directed by John Moore. The target audience for this film is most likely over 18 year olds, that enjoy mildly scary horrors.

This film is about a man (president’s godson) and his wife’s child. However, the farther is told that the child didn’t survive birth and that the hospital has a healthy baby that has been abandoned. The man is told that the best thing to do is raise this child as his own and leave his wife to believe that this is their baby. However, due to strange happenings such as the boys Nanny hanging her-self at the boy’s party and how he acts, the mother suspects that there is something not quite right with this child. Eventually the dad is confronted first by a priest that tells him the boy must be killed as he’s the devil, and then a reporter that can see streaks of light in his photos of people before they die. The boys new nanny kills the man’s wife and the farther finally tries to kill the boy as finds out that his child didn’t die at birth but was instead killed so that this devil could obtain a position of power to take over but the farther fails. Ending with a scene of the boy holding hands with another man who will presumably take care of the boy.

This film features dark scenes and jump scares that create an eerie feel and keep you on your toes. I feel this film would be classed as a horror/drama.  The main characters are the man, wife president, boy, priest and reporter.

In conclusion, I like this film because its got a good story line and features flash backs and a dark and eerie feel throughout.

The second film I am going to be reviewing is Shawshank Redemption, written and directed by Frank Darabont in 1994.  This film is about a Lawyer who is wrongly accused of killing his wife and her lover, who then ends up at an extremely rough prison with a double life sentence. He soon befriends a group of inmates and eventually ends up doing the wardens tax fraud and too stop the warden getting caught for it he puts the account in a made- up man’s name, eventually when he could not take any more of it, he escapes through the sewage and uses that fake to transact all the money in that account and lives the remainder of his days in Mexico with his fellow inmate. I like the ending to this film as; simple as it is, you feel extremely happy for both inmates.

This film was filmed in Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. Serving as the fictional Shawshank state penitentiary. This film is R rated and would come under crime/drama.  I think this as there is violence, it must be crime as its based in a prison and drama due to the face the film is quite tense and keeps you on your toes. There is a back story in the beginning which tells you about why Andy (the main character) ended up in the prison in the first place and features flash backs towards the end of the film, there is also a flash back at the end depicting how Andy managed to escape. There is a narration throughout by Morgan Freeman who plays Andy’s closest friend in prison, this worked well as some extremely violent scenes panned away so you didn’t see them but the narration told you what happened. This film was based in a time where a lot of police men and prison officers were very corrupt and could get away with what they wanted to, this was good as in the end Andy got the work out to the newspapers that the warden murdered an inmate and about the brutality that occurred inside. The overall theme was friends ship as its friendship that can get you through a situation like that and in the end where both the main characters are out of prison the special thing isn’t that they are both out, what’s most special, is that they are out together and can life the remainder of their lives together as free men. There is strong language throughout and this reminds you that they are in a violent and hostile place. There isn’t any special effects, its kept as realistic as possible, as though to make you feel as though you are with them in their predicament and there is a recurring piece of music in this film played by strings and is a powerful piece that adds to the tense situation.

In conclusion, I love this film for its story line and ending. It’s all about hope, enjoying the little things and Friendship.