Usual Suspects
The usual suspects (1995) is a crime thriller directed by Bryan Singer. Straight away in the first 20 seconds of the film we see a proairetic code as the man sets alight a piece of paper, we keep cutting to barrels which are leaking petrol and we instantly think there is going to be an explosion. So the man then throw's the paper onto the floor and we wait for the fire and petrol to meet, as the fire follows a line to the barrels a mysteries man comes along and piss's over the flame to stop it reaching the barrels. So forty seconds in and we have already loads of hermeneutic codes, the first being where are they? Who is the man in the coat? Who is the man on the floor? What are they doing? Why are they there? Do they have an connection?
As the man in the coat walk downstairs toward the other man we see loads of dead bodies all over the ship. He then starts to talk to the man on the floor, the man on the floor is not surprised at who he is looking at and they obviously know each other. The man in the coat then pulls out a gun and kills the man. We then ask ourselves why is everyone dead? How do they know each other and why did he kill him?
We they get a serious of cuts of the boat from the outside, there is no one to be seen, Where is everyone? then we see the man in the coat leaving the boat as he is walking away we cut to a barrel and petrol is pouring out of it. then we see him flick a cigarette onto the floor (another proairetic code) and we then see the man walk off as the oat goes up in flames!
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