Murder Mystery
There are two titles in the opening of the movie, the title of the movie and the company that is presenting it. Images of robbery, detective cases, images of a couple mentioning going on a vacation. These images foreshadow a trip that the couple is going to go on and there will be a murder mystery case that the husband will try to solve because he wants to be a detective. The genre is reinforced through technical codes like the murder, a detective, weapons, and evidence. Some symbolic codes that reinforce this genre include the setting which is New York. This city is associated with high crime rates and lots of detective cases. As well as this, the fact that it is the couple’s 15-year anniversary foreshadows the trip that they are going to go on which leads them to being involved in a murder case in the first place. The enigma would be the rich man they meet on the plane. He sporadically invites them on his family’s yacht which is where the murder occurs. The audience is constantly confused as to whether he is genuinely nice or pretending because he’s really the killer. The target audience is established in the opening scene when the women discuss sex and marriage and the men go out drinking. This clearly identifies the movie as an adult film that contains content older viewers would enjoy/understand. Technology is used effectively in the editing techniques because the camera constantly follows the couple so that the audience isn’t aware of any extra information that the couple isn’t.
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