Film intro analysis #1

The opening of the film 'The cleaner' starts off with the calm and steady narration of Samuel L. Jackson portraying the story of a woman as we see the woman on the screen. She walks along a street and into her Mother's apartment to find her unexpected corpse on the floor of her kitchen. We can see from here on that the genre of the film isn't rated an under 15, and is recommended for more mature viewers. The narration starts while the introduction credits are still rolling and it gives the audience an insight to an example of what he does in his work. The story is quite gruesome and attracts the audience's attention.
The use of contrapuntal music from 1:27 onwards is a great way to keep the audiences concentration. A song with the lyrics 'tell me something good' starts playing when the narrator was talking about death and blood. It also is a very creative idea to use in the opening of a film, as it gives off the effect that the film they are about to see can be quite disturbing at times because of the style that was just used in the opening of the film.
The lighting in the first scene of the opening is quite dark, low keyed, and only backlit to help set the mood of what the narrator is saying, however, when the happy music starts playing we can see that the lighting and colour becomes a lot more vibrant and lighter.
After seeing the opening of this film it completely grasped me and I intendedly went home after school and watched this film because of how interesting the opening was, however, i was quite let down by the film after watching it because it got quite boring and wasn't as good as the intro made it out to be.