The Shawshank Redemption

The film starts with an enigma code, a view of a house and garden at night. Who's house we dont know. The sounds of insects buzzing creates eeriness. A man is sitting in his car holding a gun and drinking alcohol, an action code that somethings going to happen as he's got a gun. Straight away were given the clues that this is a crime film. To start with we only see the side of his face while hes loading the bullets into the gun which creates mystery. The screen then changes quickly and shows the same man standing in court being quizzed by a lawyer. Hes being accused of shooting dead his wife and her lover. The man looks very upset as he pleads his innocence. As a viewer were left wondering whether he did shoot them as all the evidence seems to lead to him and we saw him sat in his car with a gun. This makes the viewer feel like there in the court and are a witness. It then has a flash back of him in the car drinking again. The camera turns to the window of the house and you see the wife and her lover. It turns back onto the man again as he gets out of his car, stumbles a few steps and drops his bottle which smash's on the floor. This is important as it shows him leaving evidence and linking himself to the crime scene. It then flash's back to the court again and hes charged with the murders and given two life sentences. The whole of the first scene shows that this is a crime film, it features a crime, a court and a gun.