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The film is called ‘Delirium’. It starts off with the opening credits. Short editing showing clips from later on in the film giving the audience an idea of what’s going to happen. Dark, shadowy disturbing images of a person doing and planning disturbing things. A close up of blades scraping along each other, the screech of the blades as the slide along one another. Distorted images of people annotated and written up. Between each short clip the screen goes black, the sound of electricity to signal the cut. While the screen is black that’s when the credits are shown, then back to showing the audience what they want to see, those distorted images again. Once the opening credits have been shown, this should take roughly 1 ½ -2 mins. After this is when the real film starts. Our main detective who has been set on a case of severe blood shed leaves a house during the pouring rain and enters his car where his partner is waiting for him. The detective, ‘Detective Brown’, speaks telling his partner, ‘Detective Jackson’ that he ‘cannot enter that house again’. So our two main characters are introduced to the audience and in the conversation in the car, their personalities will show.
‘Delirium’ is based on two detectives who are investigating a serial killer who has a sick obsession with pregnant women, severely torturing them before cutting them open and removing their unborn child from their womb. It starts off with the main character, Detective Brown, coming out of a house in which the murder has been committed and explains that he cannot see something like that again. However he is very passionate about catching the killer as his wife is pregnant meaning that this is more personal and meaningful to him compared to other investigations Also Detective Jackson lost a wife who was pregnant many years ago although neither of them know this as both are too scared to show their fear. At the beginning our detectives are not very close and their personalities clash in many ways. However throughout the film as they experience and go through many things together the audience will gain a liking to them just as they will gain a liking to each other. However towards the end of the film when the true murderer is discovered, this is when the monster within them surfaces is shown and how they feel deep down is shown to the audience. There will be many twists throughout the film, false accusations and evidence leading the pair astray. The way the film will pan out will see if the audience are better detectives then our pair and uncover the mystery behind the identity of the killer before the detectives do.
Within the film there will be 6 murders throughout. 5 of the victims will be a pregnant woman. However there is one murder, a woman who is not pregnant which throws the pair way off track as this is an anomaly in the trail. Race will vary, and so will age, gender and social class between the victims so the only link which they have to work on is the fact that they were all pregnant. This one murder is the reason why the investigation takes so long and the fact that the investigation was dragged out for so long is the true reason why the film ends the way that it does.
