Genre This is a horror film and this is made obvious by the eerie music and blurred images of faces. It is also shown to be in a hospital and has a panning shot of scissors. All of this creates an enigma and the pictures of scans and gore let the audience piece the story together.
Audiences expect horror films to scare them and to make them feel uncomfortable. Their expectations are fulfilled with the gory images of the surgery and the music is quite unusual.
It uses quite a calm piece of music which is ironic to the piece as it is obviously a stressful and frightening time for the woman being operated on. Once again this help reinforce the genre.
Film language The scissors and pictures used as well as it obviously being placed in a white hospital shows the audience that there is something to be frightened about and that they should be wary.
When she is being operated on their is a point of view shot which looks up at the doctors, this shows the audience that she is weak and vulnerable. It also shows us that she is one of the stock characters as we are seeing it from her perspective.
The sound, as mentioned before is ironic because it is serene and calm even though it is obvious that it was not like that for our stock character.
Characters waiting in the hospital are all silent with their heads bowed down which is a non verbal method of making the audience aware that it is a sad time for the characters.
There are several blurred images, such as the doctors faces, this may have been used by the director to show the characters' fear and confusion.
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