Note to go with the butterfly effect analysis

Notes

• Dad can’t come out as too dangerous, makes the audience think is he mental or in prison.
• -          ‘Late again’ makes you think there may be family issues, poor and it’s a mid-shot of the boy.        

• School shot = Bell rings just as he gets there – to show how close he is to getting there.

•   Banging on the window and the clothing this woman is wearing shows an authority, not sure if she is important yet so it’s a mystery as the camera doesn’t show her face straight away as she talks to the mother.

• Class room scene = Tommy – naughty, aggressive, trouble maker, has problems at home, parent problems, child abuse, he’s a bully, and he is the first one to get talked to in the scene as the teacher walks in with Evans mother which shows he is all these things.

• Drawing = suggests he has problems, smart, wants to kill when he is older though he is only 7 = the tattooed sign on one of the guys arm may have some meaning = the guys are bigger but dead and the murder looks very young and is standing ontop of the bodies which may show a sense of power = strange to show drawing so early on in the movie.
•  Can’t remember drawing it – music slows down, piano, becomes uncomfortable.
•   Makes parents who see this go what if my child drew something like that and how they would react.
•   Mother scared, worried, almost scared as she looks at her son playing.

•   Institute bit = Lighting, shadows, normally you take a kid to an appointment in the day so this scene shows how desperate the mother is. The boy has been there before as he begs his mother that he won’t draw any ‘bad drawings’ again, ‘sunnyville’ is ironic. Because the son hasn’t been exposed to those sorts of images before you think how would he know that.
•  He’s frightened = knows it’s bad, didn’t know why or how he did that drawing and that he doesn’t remember.
•  Camera = actors slightly to the right of the shot = mid-shot so you can see where they are going.

• Inside the institute = knows the doctor = link between the boy and the father.
• Brain scan from the start is shown so you know the one from the start is his brain from when he was 7, journal.
•  Frightened = no explanation from his mother why he is in an MRI scan.
• Son trusts his mother = good relationship.