Key

*indicates most important notes

Auteur Signature Film Form 

• neon colours outside of his window*
• Genre shifts – science fiction, film noir*
• Strong directional low key lighting

New Hollywood Film Form 

• non-diegetic choir singing*
• unicorn – high key lighting*
• close up of pictures – he thinks it is his family etc.*
• minimal and wooden performance – replicant? wooden performance relates back to the replicant at the beginning*
• piano – evokes memory in himself*
• gun and whisky – noirish character*
• unicorn is fantastical yet it’s the only “real” animal in the film*
• only real nature (trees) in the film*
• morally ambiguous/compromised*
• cross fade – like a flashback*
• picture is labelled
• the news paper on the TV type thing when he is searching is written in ideograms

Production Context 

• unicorn scene – another movie – legend test shot*

Themes and motifs 

• theme of surveillance – search light*
• piano*
• character haunted by memories*
• unicorn motif*
• technological advancement and high tec  – fear of it*
• existentialism theme*

Representation 

• apartment is decorated with Eastern looking furniture and ornaments (e.g. Buddah head and bonzi tree)*
• women represented as exotic (?)

Political Context 

• mise en scene – mix of cultures  – passed Cold War*