The Street
The first two shots we get from the camera are through barbed wire and a fence, though from the audiences point of view it makes it look like we are looking into a cage, not it in. Over the top of this first shot we can hear natural sound there has been no music been put into this shot, the use of natural sound allows us to tell where we are.
We then see a mid shot of a man looking through a door with wire on it, so it looks like he is looking into a cage, we then see that the camera angle presents the second man as dangerous, and animal, the shot then changes to an over the shoulder shot that follows a man walking up to the van, then shot then changes back to the first man so we can see his facial expression, we can instantly see that the first man is distressed to see the second one.
The second man is actually the main character, his name is Nick and he is the disabled one as we can see he has lots of scarring across his face. Nick has come back because he wants he job back, at this point we see a shot of the first man walking out of the hardware shop, he instantly changes his facial expression from distressed to happy as he doesn't want Nick to notice that he isn't pleased with his presence. The first man then greets Nick as if he wasn't distressed while the man in the van has a look at Nicks injures when he isn't looking. during the dialogue neither of the men really know were to look as the gazes try not to look at his scares and they can't look him in the eyes because they are trying to make sure that Nick doesn't notice there worry about his sudden appearance.
Most of the time when Nick has dialogue the camera focuses on his scarred half of his face, to try and re enforce the idea that he isn't normal. The conversation between the men unfolds and we can tell that Nick wants his old job back, but it seems that everything has started to change after he received his injuries, Nick seems to realise that his so called friends are acting differently because of his disability, then we get the through the cage shot of Nick again, portraying his as something which should be locked away in a cage, like he was less than human and with his scares he seems to be being treated like he was less of a human to.
The next shot we get is a point of view shot, in this case we are seeing the world through nicks eyes and he See's a woman trying to get her shopping out of the car, its then re enforced that Nick knows the woman by the camera giving us a close up of her. We then see that she drops her shopping, and like a normal person would do Nick runs over to help her with the shopping, she then jumps at seeing Nicks face, we then get to see what she saw from a close up of nicks injured side, see then trys to shrug of the revulsion of Nick by trying to explain that she would have jumped no matter who had come up behind her. We then see Nick saying that it was alright of her jumping at that he understood that it was his looks, he then starts to walk away but the woman follows him and try to explain herself, she says that even if it was George Clooney behind her she would have jumped, though this could be seen as a insult to Nick as she seems to say that Nick is the polar opposite to George Clooney, she compares them in looks and then openly says that it wasn't Nicks face so if he hadn't of guessed that she was sacred of his face it would seem pretty obvious know Nick understands this and walks off angrily , he has had the fact that he is know different by peoples ideas social norms that he has know become an outcast, no body will speak to him without not looking at his face and trying to explain that he doesn't scare people.
In the next sequence we get a soundtrack of tribal drums, this is a non diegetic sound added to the scene to heighten dramatic tension, we can clearly see by the way Nick is walking that he is very angry, even when he is walking in a crowd it looks like he is still singles out, we see also the re enforcement of him being ugly and an outcast by various close up expressions of peoples faces as he walks by. The way that Nick is looking right to left constantly gives us the impression of him trying to look at anyone that is looking at his face, daring them to look almost, trying to get someone to mention him. He looks like wolf among sheep, less human than person, his attitude has been molded by the people who have scorned him for his disability and his effort to re integrate back into society. He has been made believe that he isn't good normal or good enough to become just another person in a crowd, he know stands out and society has marked him as an outcast.
In the few lines of dialogue we hear nick calling himself ugly and scary, he tries to tell the general that he could become a recruitment person just like the general, we can see the general looking away from Nick, eye contact is rarely made between them because the general doesn't want to look at Nick.
162 min - Action | Adventure | Fantasy - 17 December 2009 (UK)
116 min - Comedy 
