Arthur Penn's 'Bonnie & Clyde' (1967)

I liked 'Bonnie and Clyde' because many opposing moods or tonal shifts, one minute they would be all serious and the next it would be quite comical. Because this was a biopic film it has a linear narrative, this means that it dramatizes the biography of a real person or persons and thus is usually in a cause and effect narrative form making it linear. Like Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mums car and the effect of this is that they meet. An example of the dramatization that the writers use is in the ages of Bonnie and Clyde, in the film Bonnie is 23 not 19 while Clyde is 25 not 21 and they where armed and ready for the ambush when they where killed. I also liked the way that they use family or friend snaps that play on the background during the films opening. Bonnie and Clyde's blurry, noisy and un-enchanting sepia snapshots of the Barlow and Parker family's play to help create a happy and wholesome mood, that there is no danger, that this is a brief glimpse into their lives before they got involved in the bank robbing industry and pretty much sets the tone for the beginning of the film. The lyrical or dream like sequence thats accompanied by a camera or post effect is also interesting. Its amusing how the homecoming scene is filmed with a red filter to create a misty, soft focused and hazy like appearance that has sort of a faded and haunted look as Bonnie catches up with her family for what will be her last time before she dies as well as gets covered in red blood. I liked the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde because unlike many of the deaths you now see in movies that are usually quite gruesome and chaotic, Bonnie and Clyde's death was cinematically inspiring and abstract, to help highlight their romance and the myths and legendsthat where created around them.