The film 'Fargo' was a thriller produced in 1996 set in Fargo North Dakota. The film is about a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for $80,000 which leads to serious murders involving some of the main charactors.The film first starts of with Jerry who is the cars salesmen in a bar with two other men, the lighting of this particular scene is very dark and dim using little lighting in the background of the charactors. As they are disscusing a plan to kidnap his wife and make a deal on splitting money they receive the use of the pub and dark lighting gives the expression that something bad is going on and shows a bad atmosphere in the room.
When the two men that Jerry hired kidnap his wife and drive away its set at night time in the dark, this makes the scene more dramatic. It also shows them driving down very empty narrow roads with nobody else around. Shortly after they leave police cars drive behind them which looked good in the dark as all you can see is the flashing lights shown in the mirror of the car.
As the film is set in Fargo it's snowing there all the time and every scene that s shown on the film shows snow it its scenery. When lots of murders happens it makes the film more exciting to watch as it makes the police hard to find them as there is alot of open land and roads covered in snow.
Sound in this film is used based around the setting. At the beginning of the film when they are sat in the pub you can mainly here the 3 charactors speaking but also hear the people slightly in the background. When the women is being kidnaped aswell all you can hear is her screaming, there is no non-diegetic sound added in the background to add more effect which is what normally happen in other films. When they are driving away it is also queit and u can faintly hear the engine of the car and the women making noises in the boot of the car.
Basically throughout the film when the main events happen there is no music added in the background to make the scenes more effective and more enjoyable to watch. i do not understand this as the film is called itself a thriller although when events happen they dont look scary or grusome because it only uses diegetic music in the scenes. If the film did use added music i think that film would be better and have a much higher rate.
