Chapter 5: Sound

Sound is very important to a film, it can transform the scenes into much more than. In this film the use of sound is simplified in the sense that it doesn't have any crazy unnatural sounds. There is no symbolizm or motifs. Silence in this film is either where it is needed as they interview Clive Owen in the beginning and the end of the film. In the beginning of the film, the introductory scene has a song called Chaiyya Chaiyya which is a Hindu song. The dialogue in this film is very functional and fast paced since much of the movie is either the robbers dealing with the hostages and or the cops or the cops talking to eachother about the robbers, so much of what is taking place is fast dialogue. There tends to be swearing, again mainly in the intense scense where it is more necicerry and adds to the drama and heat of the shot. The voice over narrator is Clive's character who talks in the beginning and the end of the film, in the beginning he is explaining the story only the story is incomplete and by the time the movie is ending the story comes full circle and the movie has covered what story Clive started to tell in the beginning of the film. Then the movie picks up where he stops telling and thus completing the story and the movie as a whole. He was chosen to narrate the story because it is him who was the robber, he knows what is going on, it is his story. Who better to tell the story?