Preliminary Opening Sequence Analysis 2

There is a suprising amount of time taken to reveal the opening image of the movie, The Basketball Diaries. However sound is incorporated immediately, using a technique called sound bridging. A voice that slowly emrges as a sound of prayer but errupts into a horrendous screaming of profanity creating linguistic irony. This can be seen as a foreshadowing effect as the camera opens with an image of the assumed protagonist awakening in his bed, we are to assume that his fate will meet an end like that of the one being cursed. The characters bedroom is small and appears to have no privacy as the crazy lady is used as his alarm clock. The characters status is established simply through his location and accent which is recogniseable as Brooklyn, New York. The placement of the camera is found looking into each window through bars which implies that the characters are prisoners of their situations, they are born into a world of poor income and will struggle to come out of it. It may also be a suggestion to the character's, Jim, future to be incarcerated in a state penitentiary.