Murder and attempted murder/ Terrorist plot/ Countdown to destruction/ Examining CCTV footage Police car chase/ Photofit/ Timely rescue
Car search/ Clear the building / Confronting the suspect
Detective stands alone
What generic elements of crime/Nordic Noir are evident in the seven minute recap of season 2 The Bridge?
Compare your ideas to the suggestions.
Murder and attempted murder/ Terrorist plot/ Countdown to destruction/ Examining CCTV footage Police car chase/ Photofit/ Timely rescue
Car search/ Clear the building / Confronting the suspect
Detective stands alone
Investigative narrative
Clear disruption of equilibrium (Todorov)
Closure of some narrative strands with some resolution
Surreal elements (Martin’s vision of Jens)
Driven by binary opposites e.g. cops v criminals, personal v professional
Chiaroscuro lighting – effect of duality or bars (imprisonment). Low key.
Closed frames - entrapment
Desaturated/grey/khaki colour palette – bleak
Soundtrack – eerie, echoing.
Windows and reflections – themes of appearance v reality
Police uniforms, cars, flashing lights and sirens, technology- PCs/mobile phones/ evidence bags / clues (e.g. lapel pin)/ handcuffs/ poison / gun / alibis – dates, times/jargon
Forensics – gloves, microscopes, hypodermic
Iconic bridge/incident room/police station (s)/ hospital/prison/IV room
Snow/bleak landscape/leafless trees
Laboratory
Family – domestic v professional
Power of the past
Justice v vengeance
Moral dilemmas
Reflection of contemporary issues – eco-terrorism
Appearance v reality
Plain clothes detectives
Unlikely partnership
Anti-social detective (female)
Boss(es)
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