Leon

When I see a film like this I never really understand. Im one of those really annoyoing people who need someone there to explain it for them, but I really got this film and thought it was Brilliant!!!!

Props:

• The Plant: I'm fairly sure everyone shall mention this importnat object. At first to me i thought it was some kind of friend Leon had for had no real friend and relied on lookng after something. Then at the end of the film and you see her plating the it in the ground it makes you realise that it is a sign of being free from everything, when the plant was in the pot it had pressure to move around and could never fully stop moving around. Then when, at the end and she plants it in the ground, you have a sense that the danger is over and she cn finally settle down and grow like the plant.
• Milk: I dind't know really where to put this, and I think that the milk is a prop. I found it intersting how he always had to have that milk and how he taught Matilda that she needed to drink the milk in order to keep healthy and become a hitman. Also I think it was important for that is how he let her in. She went shopping to go and get the milk for him and she get back and her family is dead and he is there to taker her in.

Setting

• New York: I thought this was a good setting for this film. I really busy and over populated meant that it was easy to hide and that people would find it hard to look for you.
• "Littile Italy": I like the part at the begining where you went into the establishing shot by going into a sign saying "Littile Italy". I set the scence on where people might be from and gave more of an idea on where it was set in New York.

Lighting

• The lighting changed depending on what mood the scene was on. For exmaple the film starts off with leon getting his next task and there he is in a gloomy lit room and having a very important converstion with someone. In this shot is the single light bulb you see when people are talking business. Then the light changes when outside and you see a nomal everyday street like nothing is wrong.
• Also, the lighting is shown outside like a typical day in New York. Even though people are getting killed, there is a sense that it can happen anywhere.

Sound

• The music in the film is rather important and changes upon the mood. Music is mostly non-digetic but there is some secnes where it is diegetic.

Shots:

• POV: There are quite a few of POV shots in the film. A favorite of mine is at the begining where Leon is about to kill that man and just before he put a knife around his neck, there is a POV shot of him towards the man. I really like the building suspense of knowing what is going to happen at the same time as now knowing what is going to happen.

Overall, I thought this fiml was very good and I think it might of made my top 20 films!! Can't wait to watch more!!

Izzy =] =] =]