The International Analysis

The International - 2009 - Tom Tykwer 

In the opening of The International, there is a close up of one of the characters which we can then assume will be the main character as he has about 10 seconds of screen time where he just stares at another character. We can tell this will be a thriller-mystery as there is an eyeliner match so the audience can tell who may be the villain as we don't see all of his face. The fact that there is a murder within the opening of the film, we can tell that it will most likely be a sub-genre of a thriller-mystery because there was talk about finding out information so there could also be aspects of undercover spying and criminal conspiracy to try and figure out who committed the murder.

The camera work that goes on is quite important, the y use a butch tilt to show the journalist has died and to highlight the importance of his death to the narrative. The sound in the scene can give us quite an ominous outlook on the film as it is a diegetic background noise of rainfall, this rainfall also continues as the two guys fall over in the street but fades out into an ambient sound, it doesn't fade out all the way as it tell us that both aren't dead but matches what one of the men can hear. This sound would be non-diagetic and can signify the guys heart beat and it also intensifies the scene and can tell us something big will happen.