Harry Brown Analysis

Harry Brown Analysis.

Harry Brown is a crime drama. The opening sequence starts with simple, white titles quite small and slick, against a black background. It then cuts to an alley way full of graffiti and a group of boys with dark typical 'hood rat' clothes on including hats and hoods, you can hear cars outside driving. The dialog starts straight away and the camera is from one of the boys in the groups perspective. The quality of the filming is grainy and dark to make it feel like it is being filmed on a phone, this makes the audience feel like they are in the action.

Their is a suggestion of a main character, the boy leaning up against the wall. One of the other boys passes the main character drugs and lights it for him. Once the main character has inhaled there is a pause whilst the drugs are being let into his system, this also is a suggestion that what is being smoked is strong. His friends start laughing and lightly slapping his face in a jokey way as a congratulation suggestion, once he exhales the smoke.

The boy who gave him the drugs, then shows the boy in which the cameras perspective is, a gun whilst speaking and loading the gun which then gets handed to the main character. Once he has the gun the boys then attack him in a jokey way again, cheering him on and antagonizing him to do something with it.

All the sound stops and it cuts to the white titles with the black background appears again. Then the camera cuts to an estate, you can hear boys shouting and the engine from the motorbike in which the boys are driving. The camera is from one of that boys on this bikes perspective. The bike drives of the estate and into a park where an innocent woman is pushing a pram on the pavement, the boys start swearing at her. The bike then stops and the perspective of the camera changes to a low shot, where we see the two boys on the bike grinning and holding a gun. When the bike starts moving again the camera goes back to the boy on the bikes perspective. The boys start shooting at the woman whilst circling her on the bike, laughing as if they are playing a game and a killing people is just a joke. This creates enigma and tension in the film already.

Once she has been shot, you see blood plat and she drops to the floor, the boys drive off quickly. Whilst coming out of the park and turning out onto the road in a rush, a van hits the bike and the camera falls as the boys do. You hear sounds of broken bones and flesh once they have been hit, you also hear the sound of tyre stopping sharply on the road. The scene ends with the camera on the floor facing the boys who have been hit.