Detachment Short film, 'Suspence'

How the " Detachment " Short film, Created Suspense


The first Shot of the short is a close up of the protagonist, laying in bed, when he gets up, the first thing he does is go for a cigarette, and the audience get given the idea that he is a man with bad habits, but because this is only the beginning this questions the audience on what other bad things he does. the shots pans out from his bed and onto a very mistreated room with messy cups and plates. which makes us consider if he has better things to do, or if he is just Lazy, but it makes us want to explore.

In the background there is the sound of Ghetto style music and a fight coming from another room, of which the man pays no attention to, even as the confrontation gets more violent. He simply Puts on his cloths, showing a mutual face. As he finishes, the music gets louder and the fight in the next room get scarily violent, accompanied by the music to increase the effect, and at this point the man pulls out a high calibre sniper rifle, that he handles with some degree of confidence, questions of what he does and what he is going to do are unanswered. But if paralleled to the unravelling situation in the next room, which escalates to the point of which a woman begging for her life, I would consider that he is going to do something bad. And because the whole time he is showing an expressionless face, I would have thought that the activities he partakes in, are regular. Explaining a lack of remorse.

He then hides his gun in a large bag, and then leaves the room, the woman in the next room screaming as she is within an inch of her life. Suspense for the 'what happens next' question, still on the minds of the audience. Could he be a fixer or a hit man, or just a cold killer? what was happening in the next room, and was it anything to do with him? All elements from, his clothing, the type of gun, the style of music, and even the expressions on his face, were directed to insight a sense of confusion in the audience which, helped sustain the suspense till the very end.