The Girl on
the Train
Background music – Light piano music is
atypical to the dark presentation of the film. This helps to
promote confusion on behalf of the audience because they are unsure of what
theme the film is based on until the woman’s disappearance and the introduction
of the new character.
Cuts to text – Breaks from the action to
inform the audience that the scene they are watching is in the past tense, this
symbolises that the events that took place will have a big impact on the narrative
and draws attention to what is happening to ensure there is no confusion.
Gaps of silence – Presents a sense of
unknowing throughout the entirety of the narrative as the audience is left in
suspense and can consider what is going on. This leads to increasing curiosity
and highlights the lack of information given by the trailer.
Slow motion/small jump cuts – Introduce the
lead woman character who witnessed the disappearance of the woman. Makes her a
key part of the production and the change in tone of music to a slower and more
dark style further presents the disappearance to be of key importance in the
narrative.
Random cuts – The production cuts to random,
unexplained scenes which lead to further questions being asked by the audience
who are unsure what may have happened in the film. There is also the question
of whether the scenes are from the past or present because there was no flash
forward from the original cuts of “one week ago”.
Changes of pacing – Like the changes I found in other thrillers, including Seven and Zodiac, the narrative changes pace in the middle of the introduction. This introduction changes pace like Zodiac does to place emphasis on the main character, in this case presenting her reliance on alcohol and how this could change the reliance of what she is saying.
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