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1. The setting on the trailer is mostly in a dark gloomy city, in the backstreets and small areas. At first
impression of the characters all seem very dark and twisted, and clearly have in depth backstories
for them to become these types of people.
The backstory of the main character isn’t explained, but its clear something happened to him whilst
doing his police duties, so you have to wait to see why he’s not in the police force anymore. He
explains what he does now, which is in effect, bounty hunting, although he gets the requests from
normal to rich people who want the person dead, and not by the legal authorities.
I think we can see by his backstory and the way his persona is, that he is a very intellectual detective
but clearly ruined his chances in the police force in some way which makes us intrigued and anxious
to find out.
At the beginning he has long untamed hair and drinking alcohol in the middle of the day, this seems
like he’s in a bad place and out of touch with himself at that point. It goes on to change and we see
him looking presentable and more confident, this is clear by the way he carries himself and talks, so
it’s interesting to see how he’s changed, and what has changed about him.
Liam Neeson is iconic for the action thriller genres, for example when he was the star in the Taken
movies which were a big success world-wide. So being the main character could have attracted a lot
of fans to see this movie.
During the trailer we see a man jump off a building to commit suicide, this looks very shocking as he
takes no thought to jump and just simply steps off the building with ease. This makes us question
why it was so easy for him to do that and what has made him want to end his life.