We are going to have a Good Time... ok that was a terrible pun

I've spent the whole day watching, analyzing and reviewing A LOT of film openings from really amazing movies, not just from my own genre but from a all types of genre just to get a clear idea of how and why of the importance of a film opening. 

This video also helped to explain a lot!

One of the first film openings that I would like to talk about is of the movie; Good Time, directed by the Safdie Brothers. This is the first big feature film of the Safdies to the big screen. The film stars Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie (one of the directors) and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film is about two brothers that after a failed bank robbery, the young brother gets into prison, so the older brother embarks on an odyssey through New York's underground to get him out of there.

As I couldn't attach the opening to the blog, here is the link to the opening scene. Some parts of the opening are cut. 

Good Time (2017)

The opening scene, gives us a background on one of the main characters, the younger brother interpreted by Benny Safdie. That seems to be talking with a special therapist that asks him some question that trigger the character to a past trauma. This opening help to give some background of a probable mental illness that the character suffers and is in needed requiere of help. After some conversation, the older brother comes in gets his younger brother out of there as soon as possible. He tells him that he is not one of them.

This scene shows different techniques that gives us a sense of emotion of what is happening between the two characters that are having this conversation. The shots are divided by always having close ups between the two characters with small zoom in and zoom out off their faces. I like this opening very much because it gives us a little background and connection to one of the characters. It also gives a lot of foreshadowing.