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Within the opening two minuets of the film not a lot happens, but at the same time a lot happens. We start of with an old home movie of a little girls fifth birthday, within this short clip you see the little girl opening a present and her mother bringing her birthday cake to the table, The little girl blows out the candle and once the flame has gone out we cut from the old film to a man sitting alone in a room with all the lights turned off. This will make the audience relate the girl and mother to this man (wife and daughter) but at the same time they will be asking themselves why is he alone in the dark? Has something happened to them that has driven them apart and he regrets it? or did they die in an accident,we do not yet know. But this is what action movies are famous for the constant thought of what is going to happen next, well that and the car crashes, hand to hand combat, fire arm fights and chase scenes. The man turns the light on to reveal him holding a picture close to his chest, showing that he has strong emotions for the people within that photo. We then see once the man has gotten up that on this photo is a woman on a horse, is this woman his wife? or his daughter (older then in the video)?
We then cut to him in a car pulling up to a shop. Once in the shop he is greeted by the shop worker, this is when we establish the main characters name (although not full) Mr. Mill. By the convosation that Mills has with the worker we are able to know that he goes into this shop frequently. For what reason we don't know, it could be that he just likes to shop their.