Sound
Opening scene… “I didn’t think there was anything strange
about Billy” this implies that her mind has changed and now she thinks that he
is. The sound over the top gives a deviant feel; this type of sound is usually associated
with horror and crime drama. The non-diegetic sound stops shortly followed by diegetic
sounds like barking dogs, leaves crunching, police shouting and cars driving by.
Giving a feel that what is happening is real and that he was quickly caught out
and stopped of his deviant ways. Billy shouts “I haven’t done anything wrong”
the fact that he feels the need to express this shows that he immediately feels
intimidated and vulnerable. The
inspector refers to him as ‘sub-normal’ which is corrected by the father as ‘handicapped’.
This shows he doesn’t know the correct way to deal with a disabled person
showing that they need specialist help and need to be treated with care. The
inspector says he needs someone else in the room to “make sure he doesn’t do
anything wrong” implying that he doesn’t know how to treat him but also emphasising
his vulnerability. This could also imply that he cannot be treated like any
other person or that there are too many rules and regulations surrounding this
which the inspector feels is unnecessary. Talking to him as if he is a child that
needs everything explaining to him, the inspector is giving him various options
to try and trip him up, almost telling him how he feels. Inspector Frost keeps checking
with the father to get an elaborate and more complex answer; only asking the
simple questions to Billy and then seeking the father out for detail and
confirmation. We stereotypically see him as ‘childish’ and unable to lie and manipulate.
Billy who we think is ‘stupid’ is trying able to protect himself but is unable
to keep a sophisticated and fool proof alibi for long. Billy’s lies begin to
stack up and he becomes aggressive showing how his seemingly vulnerable
character can change in a moment suggesting further that he knows more about 8
year old Trisha’s whereabouts. The tone
of the inspector’s voice changes to a patient tone when Billy stops telling the
truth and begins answering with the answer of “I don’t know”. Frost is talking
through the father to Billy showing that he is untrustworthy. Billy is the more
dominant and is telling his father what he was doing rather than accepting what
believes is correct. This could show that he is desperate to hide the truth as
he becomes more aggressive and frustrated. The dad nods from behind Billy when he is questioned, either
showing that Billy is the more dominant and the dad just agrees with whatever
Billy says or that the inspector does not trust Billy and wants confirmation
from someone ‘normal’.
How is Billy represented?
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Less dominant
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Appearance is vulnerable
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Personally is fairly clever.
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Treated like a child by everybody, he is very childlike
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Untrustworthy
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