Classic story structure is emerging with the use of tracking shots and camera work that makes film digestible, fluid and seamless. This movie does a great job of employing dollies, pans, and classic editing from close ups to wides to medium to effectively deliver its story. The Crime Genre is definitely growing as an escapist genre, however this film adds a love interest to keep the female audience members engaged. We will see this fusion of crime film with romantic film to create the genre of Rom-Com. Many romantic comedies start to include a criminal subplot to force the man and woman to go on an adventure together. This fusion will be a staple of Romantic comedies for decades to come.
It really feels like Hollywood is engineering reality, especially with this film. The “artificiality” of movies is really emerging during the 30’s and the aftermath of the great depression, and the american psyche is almost trying to hide its brutal understanding of what's going on in the world around it from itself.
Again you see the power of the actor in talkies to capture attention and create suspense rather than just their facial expressions or visual cues. Film is far from the days of the silent era and there is no turning back, there is now structure, camera movement, subtelty of performance and it all works together to transport the viewer into the world of the story so fully that they reject any challenge to their own reality.