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How does Portals develop a sense of enigma or mystery?

One of the main mysteries established when watching this film is the setting the woman is in. From the opening scene, the audience is already questioning the setting with many signs pointing it to be a prison cell, some of these signs include: tally marks on the wall, the surveillance camera watching her and the door that opens to deliver her food. All these elements of the setting make the  audience ask questions such as: "why is she in a prison cell?", "has anyone been there before her?", "who is watching her?" and most importantly, "where is she?".  Later on in the film after the woman seems to escape from her prison cell however the sense of mystery is continued with the woman running through hallways and up staircases with still no answer as to where she is. The woman eventually breaks outside to find she is on top of a building with many others surrounding her with the twist then revealed to be that she had never escaped, with the outsi...
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To what extent does Pitch Black Heist conform to the heist genre?

The main way in which Pitch Black Heist conforms to the heist genre is the way in which the scenes and story follow the same connotations as you would expect within a heist film. For example, the first scene in Pitch Black Heist shows the men who will be carrying out the heist meeting each other for the first time. The men all introduce themselves and go over the plan for the heist. The film also conforms by showing a problem in the plan that the men have to adapt to in order to succeed; this problem is the fact that there are light-sensitive alarms inside the safe room so the men must practice walking through and memorising the room layout so they can get to the safe and open it without setting off the alarms. The plan also goes wrong later on when the men are sitting in the pub and the call they are waiting for doesn’t come until much later. In this time, both men decide to drink and then both get drunk so by the time they finally get the call, they are walking down the street shouti...
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