1. Inside Man
Genre signifiers: This film introduces its genre by showing the protagonist and antagonist by showing
the two characters in different situations where the protagonist, Detective Keith Frazer facing
corruption dilemmas.
Settings: The film is based in the busy borough of Manhattan inside a bank.
Characters:
Clive Owen – Dalton Russell
Character profile: Clive Owen plays a motionless man who with an efficient plan becomes enrolled in
a bank heist which oversees a vengeful past with a mysterious but lucrative man, Arthur Case.
Denzel Washington – Detective Keith Frazer
Character profile: As corruption charges come to surface, Detective Keith Frazer portrays himself as
a sleek individual in the inside man. Facing a formidable foe with an ambition to bring himself to
ease with a reputation of a dishonoured man he becomes a victim of a ‘perfect bank robbery’
leaving him to wonder who and how?
Narrative:
A detective faces a plot which being devised is a well-planned heist which leaves nothing but a
troubled officer left to wonder how and who is capable of a heist that allows a perfect robbery left
to wonder many questions on how such a robbery took place at one of the most central banks in
Manhattan. They exemplify the true meaning of perfect bank robbers from their true intentions and
every action they make the robbers the investigators to dead ends.