Hanna's escape
The laboratorial setting immediately gives the feeling of being experimented on, or in Hanna’s case, interrogated. The bright light and white room give a cold clinical feeling, which signifies that the people around Hanna are not ‘friendly’ like they act. Hanna’s costume, an orange jumpsuit, signifies that she is a prisoner and also singles her out among the other characters because of the bright orange colour. It draws attention to her by making her visually more interesting and hence puts us on her side.
During the shots inside the lab, we hear diegetic white noise presumably coming from the machinery. The sound isn’t heard during the shots of Marissa in the control room. This makes the viewer more aware of the different rooms and the different atmosphere in the rooms. Marissa in the control room is calm and safe so there no noise in the background where she is while Hanna is much more nervous and is in a much more disconcerting room. The white noise helps us to feel this.
The close up on the agent’s lips when she says ‘prague’ sticks out among the usual shot/reverse shots which signifies that that meant something to Hanna who then works out the agents’ system.
As soon as the neck is snapped, there is a build up of sound which though is diegetic, is clearly specially arranged in order to mirror the rise in tension and the rise of Hanna’s adrenaline since we know from that moment that she has to run. The said build up of sounds reaches a climax whereby non-diegetic techno music plays. The music has a very strong pulse which signifies Hanna’s feeling of panic and need to run. The techno genre relates to most action thrillers which use similar music when characters are forced to run.
The sound of her heavy breathing is diegetic but made significantly more audible which makes us feel her sense of panic which makes the action feel more real. It also makes us identify with Hanna and want her to escape, also common in acton thrillers.
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