Jason bourne analasys

At the start of the clip it fades from black to an establishing shot, this shot gives us an idea of where Bourne is and starts to give us a rough idea of what is happening around him. It then cuts to a wide shot of Bourne walking off the boat at the docks and into a docking yard sought of area wearing a beaten up/ old looking red jacket, the colour red is symbolised as his future and what he is heading into and the fact that its all beaten up and old looking could point to the fact that he is walking into quite a dangerous and unknown future. Also the fact that in the first shot there is a lot of blue, shown through the colour of the water and blue streaks on the boat could symbolise the fact he is walking from hi old past into a unknown and dangerous future, seeing as the colour blue represents his past in this film. These colours come up time and time again in this film pointing to Bournes 'identity' and how he struggles whether to pursue his past or what is happening and whats going to happen in his future.

After Bourne starts to walk away from the docking yard and the camera slowly pans to some houses in the background putting focus on them which causes us to see slight tinges of red on the houses as he starts to walk towards them, as he walks towards them we start to get the impression that he is walking towards his future and the fact he looks like he is wandering almost aimlessly points to the fact he is walking into his future blind and unaware as we are told that he has lost the memories of his past. Also we see him move behind a blue truck and he disappears giving us the sense that although he is walking into his future he has still got that underlying feeling tugging on him to know his past and find out about these things. The extreme wide shot of the train gives us an idea of the area where he is and shows that he is in quite an isolated and remote area and has probably been travelling for a few days. Also the fact it shows the blue streaks on the train and how it shows a slow pan into him looking into the glass and the reflection is coming back blurry could point to the fact he is looking into his past but it is all blurry and he cant make out what has happened in his past etc... also the fact the seats are red points again to the conflict between him throwing back and forth between past and future showing he is riding along towards his future but wants to figure out and work towards his past as well as the distorted image showing that probably no one knows him not even himself. Also in the establishing scene when he disappears behind the truck it just cuts to him on the train which makes us wonder what happened in between and what could have happened.

A lot of the scenes shown puts quite a bit of emphasis on him being 'lost' or in the unknown and i agree this is probably because of the fact that it is trying to set up the rest of the movie by giving us something to think about as well as him thinking about it at the same time. This is why the title is quite ironic in the fact that Bourne is trying to find his 'identity' as shown in the title of the 'Bourne identity'.

Also the orchestral non diagetic music in the background gives a mysterious and eerie undertone which creates the suspense so often used and needed in modern day thrillers. The diagetic sound used during the dock scene however contrasts the eerie tone of this part of the scene because it shows more of an aspect humanity and normality to it because its sound you would normally hear at a dock rather than the orchestral music which would not be heard usually if you were sitting on a train. When he gets off the train the music stops and this gives us a feeling of isolation cause he is alone and the music is gone so all there is, is him in the train station. Also as the scene cuts from him in the train to the station it shows us a mid shot of him so we can see him but also his surroundings revealing the blue in the back making us think he has probably left his past in the past, and also to back up our thoughts on this we can see at the front of the train is red lights and a red streak on the front that looks like an arrow which can give us the sense he is leaving his past behind him and moving towards the future challenges in front of him. Although we see this happen in the next cut we see him standing and it pans from a low shot, to a mid, to a mid shot of his head to waist looking back at a very blue lit road giving us the sense that he still has that underlying struggle with wanting to know his past as he moves on and we get the sense he is really struggling with that. Later in the scene tho his first interaction with other people other than the sailors and just being another person in the crowd of people at the docks and at the train station was with the police when he was sleeping on the bench in the cold, and the police came up to him, at first we are only able to see there feet giving the impression that they are probably gonna start trouble or something is gonna happen cause they are not fully showing. This becomes apparent when the police officer shines the light in jason's face and after he tries to explain himself to the police officers they attack him. In this part of the scene we see a slight blue tinge in the background and the police officers are wearing blue, this and the fact he can just fight like nothing and disable them gives us a sense we are seeing into his past a little bit and this may be the start of things starting to be revealed of his past to explain his future.