Lesson: The Game (notes)

The Game 

Setting: 
From the Title Sequence -

• countryside
• summer
• 60's-70's 
• birthday party 

Themes: 

• Drama
• Crime
• Identity - father figure 

Style: 

• dull colours 
• prologue 
• music - classical, slow, represents loneliness from the piano
• clips - memories
• slow editing, reminiscent
• editing - puzzles, relates to the title 'the game' - is there are puzzle he has to fit? is it to do with his childhood? creates an enigma for the audience 
• old fashioned 

Narrative 

• Game - life 
• His childhood has had an impact on his current life  

- he regrets something from his childhood 

- something dramatic in his childhood has happened which has had an affect on his life

- loneliness of his childhood?