In this film the scene is set on an important day, Christmas. This is an important point because Christmas is an important day for Christians and it means a lot to them. This may have been set in this time to make people think about the dates and a reason for this time chosen. The scene starts with laughing and screaming sounds so that the audience knows that there is someone playing a game without showing who it is and what’s happening. This makes the audience want to know who it is and whats going on. Then the camera zooms in to the girl in the park with the mother spinning on a ride. The spinning might have been done to cause confusion, because the camera tilts up to the sky showing the girls view. The father then comes close to them and watches them and that could show his distance realtionnship to them. The next scene is at home in the little girl’s bedroom. The mother walks in to the dark room playing hide and seeks lsupporting the title. This is an important point because it’s shown in the title. This scene shows the mother and childs perfect relationship. The mother then kisses her daughter and in her dialogue it suggests that the mother has something to hide or she is speaking to her as if she would not see her again as if its for the last time and close the door behind her. The screen goes dark which could have been done to show the mothers mood. The girl calls her mother and the mother slightly opens the door. There is binary opposition here, the light is only in the girls face blanking out her whole body. This is significant because this was done only once in the film. This time showing the life the little girls going to be through. She refuses to reamin in the dark and asks her mother to open the door for her. The light behind the mum suggests that she cares for her daughter. During the conversation between the mother and child there is a peaceful tune playing softly at the background this was done to show her soft and gentle the mother is to the child and to create tension. The audience realises something wrong because the mother gets emotional when she talks to her little girl and this is seen also in the kitchen seen. The mother has black clothing in contrast to the white cupboards this could have been done to show that danger is looking ovver her or she has problems. The mother takes tablets with alcohol showing that she isn’t living a happy life. During the scene the photo on the table is on the screen. The photo includes the mother father and daughter but the light only shines on the mother and child showing there relationship and leaving the father out. In this stage we asj wether the husband and wife don’t get along. This was shown in the short scene together when the husband works and the wife watches and goes to have a bath. From this shot then we jump to the scene were the husband is sleeping in the bedroom without the wife. We can sense the tension between the two. There is a water droplet sound at the background creating tension, with the clock changing. The man sees a nightmare and wakes up, which also creates tension because this wasn’t expected in this shot. He wakes up and goes to check were his wife is. As he walks to the bathroom the water droplets gets louder and only his breathing is heard. This makes the audience know that theres something going wrong. The man breathes slowly as if he is expecting the wife to do something bad. After this the director chose to have a slow motion to show each part slowly. The husband walks in and there is candles in the bathroom. He opens the glass door and sees the wife dead in a blood puddle and tries to rescue her. During this scene the little girl is watching everything and this is seen from behind the shoulder. This was done to show her innocence and to make the audience feel sorry for her garding her loss. There is a piano sound in this shot gets louder and stronger to create suspense and to show the husbands and girls sorrow. The screen blacks out as the family breaks apart. Black has negative symbols on people. Black is known as death and this was found in the film. Death and seperating from people is a convention found in horrors and thriller films and it was found in 'Hide and Seek.'
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