Our opening scene grabs the attention fo the audience as it starts with an exciting action scene as the girl flees from a killer. The way that we juxtaposed this with the later, more normal scene is similar to the opening of 'Heavenly Creatures', which also starts by cutting between shots of girls running and screaming and more everyday shots. However, our shots which contrast with the action of the girl running are also sinister as they have detectives talking about the killing before we have seen it happen and so create an air of inevitibilty around the murder.
In our opening scene, the killer's face is in darkness, so the audience cannot see who he is. This is similar to many other films in the crime genre, such as 'The Dark Knight', in which there are a number of thieves wearing similar masks and so the audience cannot tell who is their leader. This is effective because it means that throughout the course of the film, anybody could be the killer and by cutting it with the detective scenes, it plants the idea in the mins of the viewers that the killer could be one of the detectives who are discussing the killing.
Although there is one main detective who is the focus of the film, the appearence of a group of other detectives shows the scale of the investigation and emophasises the grave nature of the crimes. This is similar to the group of detectives who assist Richie Roberts in 'American Gangster'. The lines from the detectives also help to create interest in the audience as they are only given a small line from each detective so they want to know more about them and their characters.
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