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The Returned Title Sequence - Coggle Diagram
The Returned Title Sequence
Zombie-horror genre
Ghosts in the mirror - horror convention (spirits are trapped in mirrors).
Children playing can be seen in the reflection of the puddle but not in the main frame - they aren't really there; ghosts.
Themes of death - dead animals in the water and decapitated animal heads, wreath, graves.
Eerie, low-key lighting.
Non-diegetic sound - slow paced piano music, eerie and sounds like a jack-in-a-box; use of children's toys is a horror convention.
Murderer at the end of the title sequence - themes of death, slasher genre.
Binary oppositions
Wide shot of the dam (man-made border - link to refugee crisis) next to the trees (nature).
Dead animals in water - death versus life (water symbolic of rebirth); links to refugees losing their lives whilst travelling by boat.
Victor walking next to the dam (life) which is decorated with a wreath (death).
Simon stood watching the lights in the fenced off community go on in the houses whilst he is homeless - us versus them narrative, he has been outcasted and alienated from society, he does not belong.
Chloe is in the courtyard playing alone whilst the other children (in the reflection) play together - isolation, us versus them narrative, she has been outcasted.
Lena wipes Camille's reflection away - she outcasts Camille; them versus us narrative.
Lights flickering off in the subway - light (life) versus dark (death, macabre).
Flowers on one grave and no flowers on the other grave - one is filled with a (dead) body and the other has no body in it because the occupier is a member of the returned (alive).
Poetic magic realism
Stylistic low-key lighting.
Juxtaposition - low-pitched string music accompanying high-pitched glockenspiel.
Juxtaposition between death and life - playful cat jumping to catch the fly next to the decapitated animal heads; Victor walking next to wreath on dam; animals in water.
Soft focus throughout the title sequence.
Intense, dramatic music contrasts with minimal sound in the first scene; extremes in terms of non-diegetic sound.