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In the opening scene. It starts with narration. Which is a good effect because w don't see whose talking, we just see some action and has explaining what's happening and these are examples. As me moves on from “cops and robbers” to LSD and hippies. There is a clever camera shot in which the camera moves past the woman's hair and it changes from hers to the hippies.

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Another clever effect is when the woman's legs in the hippie shot walks past the camera. The camera follows. The woman legs disappear and then a prison officer walks past, its clear we're left the hippies and are now in prison. The camera pans past a lot of arrested people eating.

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The examples of what he's saying and the narrator himself come together when one of the prisons people says what he says “we’re in the wrong f@#king game” the camera slows down over this guy when he speaks but again moves on. The camera then moves past a dark wall and we are no longer in a prison we are in some sort of....

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...chemist selling what seems like branded drugs. The camera moves slowly so we a re able to see what each of the products says. We can see the fcuk logo and what the drug is. Cocaine, ecstasy etc.

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The a pan shot extends as we move past what could be a shelf and then the narrator appears. He looks like he is looking at all the drugs in awe because there is a lot of them and emphasises that this film will be about drugs.

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The final effect is when all these drugs change to a normal pharmacy. Its clever how it changes the same pace behind the main character. It also shows us this is again an example of what the narrator is saying. But also that it is in his mind. And that its somehow his dream.