Danny ‘the dog’, is a man who only knew how to fight like a dog as taught by his ‘owner’, although he realises what happened to his mother when he was younger. This is basically the scene I will be talking about, with a bit extra on the end.
The first clip we get is of Danny looking at a picture of his mother for the first time, without saying anything we as the audience understand to an extent, what he is feeling. With a close up on his face, looking distressed, shocked and saddened the audience realises these feelings. We then get an image of the picture of his mother playing the piano, which he was looking at. This is then followed by his memories of his mother, who is playing the piano once again with a smile on her face, showing the audience that she is in a good stage of her life and seems settled with her son under her chair playing around.
The blurriness and discolour of the clip indicates to the audience that Danny is looking into the past, also the flickers of light. There are a few images of them both laughing and playing about this then reinforces that they are in a good relationship and leading a happy life. The next scene shows Danny, the main character, lying on the sofa curled up, here the audience may assume that he is grieving his mother, and feeling insecure. Once his friend plays a song on the piano which his mother used to play he begins to shrink in the room, this creates a sense of realisation and shock.
This then leads into another flash back of his past with his mother, as his mother looks at him, she smiles although as she hears a nock on the door, her expression changes into a fearful face, indicating to the audience that something bad is going to happen. The faces of the two characters seem to dramatically change as his mother puts him into a closet, with an expressionless face.
