Dead again opening sequence analysis

Dead again opening sequence analysis

This is the opening sequence of the movie Dead again. It starts with the credits first you can see the name of the movie and then the names of the actors between the credits there are some parts in which you can see newspapers with different headings and most of those stories are related to crime so this can give you a clue of what genre this movie is about. After the credits you can see a character sitting in a prison cell and he's singing while someone else is cutting his hair. The movie is in black and white which the spectator can guess that this movie is playing in the past. The director uses low key lighting. Then suddenly a man comes in and he wears a suit which looks quite expensive he also has a hat and a fag. They are talking to each other and as the first character walks out the other character reads a newspaper which was on the table which says "Strauss execution today" and there is a picture of the first character on it so now the audience knows that the character's name who just walked out is Strauss. While the other character is reading the article the character recognises that the scissor is missing and runs out. In a close up you can see that Strauss is holding the scissor in his hands at the end of the corridor there is a women and Strauss pulls the scissor to stab her. As soon as he hits her suddenly the movie becomes coloured and you can see that the women which got stabbed wakes up and it was just a dream. At the end of the sequence you can see the women wakes up, very stressed and it's dark outside and very stormy outside.The music during the movie is orchestrial and it's very pensive and eerie.