Robin Williams plays the roll of an employee of a one-hour photo lab who becomes obsessed with a young suburban family.
The film uses sound to create tension and suspense for example in the chase scene the music gradually gets louder to increase and builds the mood. The simple instruments and sinister music with simple melodys creates tension and suspicion to add to the feel of a thriller.
The location is unusual and you would never have thought a simple everyday place like the supermarket could be portrayed in such a sinister way, the low tempo music helps to portray this in the way intended. The atmoshpere between all the characters seems too perfect and normal so we expect something unusual to be happening.
Lighting creates mood and atmosphere for example the red lighting while Sy is developing the prints and finds out the secret it suggests he is "out for blood".
Everyday props and objects such as photographs, Sy's glasses and the cameras and films which are everday objects become sinister and play a big part within the film.
Robin Williams plays the role of a very isolated man who works in the one hour photo booth in the supermarket, he doesnt live with anyone or have any friends or family to socialise with. The supermarket and his job are his whole life and he soon becomes obsessed with a certain family who are regular customers to the supermarket. He imagines himself as part of the family and soon thinks as the photos produced are his memories aswell as his.
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