Blue Story Brawl


  • low production image suggests gang, violence 
  • teenagers that are in a gang, mise en scene of groups and knife suggests this 
  • Police officer with a German Shepards suggest that there is crime 
  • dark setting, lot of petrol and we can assume theres more police officers 
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