The film begins with a flashback after Clive Owen explains his plan for a "perfect" robbery. This creates a narrative enigma into how this "perfect" robbery is pulled off. Because of this, the audience has become interested in how the robber is done; this is one of the narrative techniques that the generic convention of thriller movies use.
Flash-fowards are used when the police try and predict the outcomes of raiding the bank, this creates a tense feeling in the audience as the storyline has now developed multiple outcomes and it is not known which one will be chosen.
The narrative of Inside Man makes it difficult for the audience to position themselves with the robbers or the police. However, during the film the audience would side with the police because of the obvious villian type connotations linked with bank robbers. It comes to light, to the police as well as the audience that the robbers are not as they seem as their actions are not of typical robbers; they are ordered and do not make mistakes, they even go as far as to bug the police (a technique mostly used by police, not on them). This inginuity shown by the robbers creates another narrative enigma as they clearly are not run of the mill.
Toward the end of the film, an ideological aspect is revealed. The bank robbers chose that particular bank because the director had link to Nazis and had committed war crime in which he recieved money, money which he used to start the bank. It could be said that "the ends justified the means" regardless of the fact that potentially, innocent people could have died a war criminal has been uncovered.
Flash-fowards are used when the police try and predict the outcomes of raiding the bank, this creates a tense feeling in the audience as the storyline has now developed multiple outcomes and it is not known which one will be chosen.
The narrative of Inside Man makes it difficult for the audience to position themselves with the robbers or the police. However, during the film the audience would side with the police because of the obvious villian type connotations linked with bank robbers. It comes to light, to the police as well as the audience that the robbers are not as they seem as their actions are not of typical robbers; they are ordered and do not make mistakes, they even go as far as to bug the police (a technique mostly used by police, not on them). This inginuity shown by the robbers creates another narrative enigma as they clearly are not run of the mill.
Toward the end of the film, an ideological aspect is revealed. The bank robbers chose that particular bank because the director had link to Nazis and had committed war crime in which he recieved money, money which he used to start the bank. It could be said that "the ends justified the means" regardless of the fact that potentially, innocent people could have died a war criminal has been uncovered.
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