WL - Hostel 2 Opening Analysis

Hostel 2 (2007) Director: Eli Roth

The are no idents at the start, however it starts with a white seriff font on a block background with 'Quentin Tarintino Presents' and then fades into a man in some sort of boiler suit searching through someones back and emptying the contents. The room is lit only buy the fire possibly from a fernice in the background which creates an earie an sinister feel. The only sound is Diagetic and the sound of the fire and the emptying of the back. Also there is polysemy as the scene does not show the mans face so you wonder what his job is and why he is there. He goes through the mans walet but puts the money on the side. There is also some exposision as the persons identity on the walet shows he is American and possibly a victim of the killer, but again you do not see the mans face on the I.D as the persons thumb is covering it.

The camera then cuts to these belongings bieng burnt on what appears to be some sort of grill. This is possibly to destroy evidence and we get the sense this man is an Antagonist. There is long takes of the belonging bieng burnt and the titles carry on over it. There is still only the sound of burning which keeps up the mysterious atmoshpere. The camera then cuts back to an extreme longshot as the man appears to take his suit off, however when this happens the camera blurs slightly and then fades slowly to black meaning you still dont get a view of the man which keeps up the narrative enigma.