'Film noir' or 'black film' has been a term used since the late 1950s to describe films created in a pessimistic or menacing style. Characteristics associated with film noir include the use of low key lighting and flashbacks to disrupt the main narrative sequence. As wells as this, the plot of the films are usually based around crime or mystery and will be pessimistic, often with the characters being trapped or in trouble.
Brick (Johnson, 2006) is a teen/noir film which uses many of the generic conventions for this type of film. For example, the opening scene shows the ending event of the film, and then cuts back to a couple of days previously using the convention of flashbacks to disrupt the narrative. From the opening, the audience can tell that the main characters are in trouble or have done something wrong as during the phone call the characters sound distressed as they talk about something the girl has done. This also tells the audience that the rest of the film is likely to be about crime. The location of a scene in the opening of the film is in a school, and as the film is teen/noir, most of the target audience are likely to be able to identify with this location.
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