Overall Plot - It is a psychological thriller film where a man with 23 different personality's abducts 3 teenage girls in a car park and holds them captive in an underground hideout. They discover these different personality's from a middle aged woman to a young boy while trying to escape the man. As the film goes on his 24th personality, 'The Beast' begins to emerge.
Beginning - From the start there is creepy, child like non diegetic music over the father putting food in the car with the three teenage girls inside, these helps make the audience feel uncomfortable as it contrasts what is going on in the shots as it is high key lighting and shows that something out of the ordinary is happening. The music then comes to a halt as someone enters the car and one of the three girls notice the food knocked over in the rear view mirror of the car, this shows that something is wrong and the silence of the music helps reinforce this. It then shows a close up of the girl slowly turning to notice the unknown man sitting in the car this helps to build the tension up further. The spray bottle being used by the man has also been amplified to show that he is dangerous and in control of the situation. As this is happening there is a few cut aways to the main protagonist (the girl in the front of the car) whihc shows a close up of her shock and inability to do anything about the situation, this portrays her as more weak and shows her fear of what is going on. Below are three stills that I spoke about during the analysis of the start. It then cuts to the universal studios logo which shows the film is going to be of a high quality as the company have made many successful films.
Middle - After the universal logo it cuts to a point of view shot of the protagonist being taken somewhere, what she can see is pipes and wires in a narrow hallway which shows that they are underground and hidden away, this also gives the audience a sense of claustrophobia and continues to make them feel uncomfortable. The lighting is now much more low key than the beginning and it is also fairly blurry which gives the audience a sense of disorientation and helps put them in the protagonists place. After several more cuts between the narrow hallway and them it cuts to a shot of a hamster running in its cage, this symbolises that they are just pets to him and they are trapped just like animals. It then goes back to the hallway with asynchronous diegetic screaming of one of the girls pleading for him to open the door, this again shows the fear the three girls are in and makes you fear for their lives. After a few more cuts through different rooms of the underground hideout there is a point of view shot through the crack of a door which shows someone in high heels and a dress which signals that it is a woman who may be able to help, this gives the audience and the protagonists hope. We then find out that it is the same man from the beginning acting completely different and shows the audience about his multiple personalities and introduces us to one of the other ones. There is then a cut to black where previous films made by director come up which shows the audience that the film is going to be good if they enjoyed these other films made by the director. After this it then cuts to another one of his personalities being a young boy called hedwig, this further shows the mental state and because it is unnatural for a man to act that young it makes the audience uncomfortable with the situation.
Middle-End - It then cuts to the date of the film and then several shots of different personalities with a voice over of a woman explaining his situation and how rare it is to have so many personalities. This shows the audience partly why he is like what he is. It gets to a low angle shot of one of the personalities looking down on the camera, this makes him seem much stronger and much more in control of the situation.
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