Opening Sequence

• motorbike man doesn’t speak and quickly and easily finds the woman (unnerving/ emotionless/focused)
• The woman’s morality is off as she seems to be more interested in the ant when the audience is concerned for the human
• The woman’s curiosity when looking at the ant suggests a childlike innocence that is lost as the movie continues
• The unconscious woman cries (alive/paralysed/emotion)
• The woman is emotionless when undressing her and drops her head down (focused/emotionless)
• because Laura exhibits coldness and doesn’t show empathy for the woman, we don’t feel empathy or sympathy for her but this changes as the movies continues

Middle Sequence

• Examining her face in the mirror and moves towards mirror – examining her eye/comparing herself to the man/examining who she is as a person and is the pivotal turning point in her character where she begins to feel empathy. Pivotal moment for her identity. Epiphany.
• The man looks around and speaks – not just interested in having sex with her. He is the person who shows her not all humans just want sex and sparks her change of heart
• Laura leaving the van shows her leaving her life/her job and Laura walks out of shot when she leaves the van – left her position and identity shift (proxemics)
• Laura looks panicked
• An old woman see’s the motorcyclist put the man in the trunk of a car – she does nothing – shows that not all humans feel humanity
• The man walks back to civilisation from the countryside to the town
• Motorcyclist is fast and vicious/aggressive/concentrated/emotionless

Ending Sequence

• gets in the car (symbol of her old life) but it doesn’t start (symbol that she isn’t who she used to be) – a human thing to run to what should have been comforting
• he’s forceful and brutal
• face still blinks like the woman still cried
• The way that she stares at the face shows empathy which contrasts to the beginning
• Looks at the face like it’s a mirror – see’s what she isn’t/wanted to be
• He’s chewing gum – gross/emotionless
• Motorcyclist has lost Laura – because she became so different, he doesn’t know how to
• The way that Laura killed people was less violent (leading them) than the man