Silence of the lambs.
The opening sequence starts off with Clarice (Jodie foster) running through the training course in thick fog. when she enters the frame she is tiny in comparison with the dense forest, you can sense her strain of her efforts wanting to complete the course, with her breathlessness and her determination. This portrays her female character as wanting to push herself in a way that a man would, in a male orientated profession. she is isolated in the forest with the sinister trees towering above her, the steady cam follows her through the forest, giving the impression someone is following her in her isolated state.
she's met with a FBI colleague, who tells her to meet Crawford back at the base. she hurries back and enters a crowded lift of tall males in red jumpers, this shows her being intimidated by older dominating men, showing off the small physique amongst the masculine mass above her.
when Clarice is in Crawford's office she scans across the sinister newspaper articles of a number of women killed by Buffalo Bill, this accensuates her innocence showing that she has a sensitive side under her thick skinned front.
The usual suspects starts with a man on a burning ship, with several dead men around, he lights a ciggarette which will start a fire and kill him and another man. the fire is temporarely stopped when a man above pisses on the line of the flame, this gives the impression he is powerful because he is towering above the man on the floor and he has the authority to piss on those less powerful .
the more powerful figure pulls out a gun and two shots ring out , and the ship blows up in flames. judging from this opening sequence this thriller seems to have the main topic of power and whose better. ie. the battle of the sexes. also the plot seams to have the strong sense of the power of will.
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