Film poster

Genre : Comedy

Conventions of the film

Slapstick - Comedy

Costumes - Action

Pushy - Comedy

Image : Bomb strapped to the crow, makes viewers laugh, unordinary. Dark humour, but still it continues to make people laugh. This makes the comedy edgy but not malicious. It seems the director tries to make viewers shocked at a lot of things. The images are all dark and the symbols look 'Evil', which makes you think it is a serious film, but when you watch it, you realise it is light hearted comedy which intends to tackle the stereotypical racism but in a humorous way.

The black crow shows death and morbid, with a bomb attached to it which  relates to suicide bombers. It seems that the film insinuates that the characters are trying to be serious, but the logistics of the operation (bird being a suicide bomber) succeeding are very low. The background is the colour green, which usually relates to peace, but in this situation it seems far from it. This again insinuates that the film is edgy and there is two sides to it.

The connotative meanings of the film are dark as in dark humour. The crow has black eyes, black feathers, black writing. Black symbols etc. This signifies death, but the film is far from it. The film tackles a serious issue, but also makes viewers see a funny side, which seems very hard to be successful at. The difference in contrast between the top half of the bird and the bottom half (with the bomb) shows there is two sides to the characters. The characters when watched, seem idiotic and innocent, and they dont know the reasoning behind what they are doing, but at the same time, they are planning on killing hundreds of people, so you can look at it either way. There friendship seems above all else important as they are all in it together.

I feel that the poster is trying to decieve the audience, with the colours and the image of a crow with i feel a shock approach to comedy. It makes people laugh even though they feel its wrong. The bomb attached to the crow makes viewers stop and give it a second glance, and maybe keeps the target audience hooked as it is almost teenage banter.