Film Analysis: Breaking Bad

Money. Cash Money. The thing that people will go to extreme lengths for, the object that will bring a person to their knees in the face of life because it has so much power and control over everyone who uses it. In the hit series, Breaking Bad, the program has a large variety of twists, topics and lenses that could be discussed in this assignment. However, I will be discussing the socio-economic lens due to the dominant roles that the producers had money play on the characters, the choices that they make and the results of many outcomes within the program while practically ignoring the main storyline of the show, which is a former highly chemist using his knowledge to become a drug lord in the making and selling of methamphetamine. When

He’s driving the RV as if someone is coming for him, until he hears the sirens and realizes the only people coming are the police officers. The scene gives you a sense of “the end” and that this is a point in the show where you see where Walt ends up but are now playing the waiting game to see just how he ended up in this erotic, emotional position that he is expressing in the first scene. Walt finishes the scene pointing a gun toward the directions of the sirens with a determined look on his face while only being clothed in his underwear and a button down that he had hanging on the side of the RV. The lighting of the scene is natural due to the setting of the scene having taken place in a desert just outside of the city which he lives. Walt expresses his apologies and ideology briefly into the camera (when he’s speaking to his family) but shows no fear when he raises the gun towards the sirens. The symbolism of this action shows that though Walt has what seems to be a good heart and loves his family, he is also a wild man and is not afraid to get in the trenches, or in this case, fire a weapon at police officers who are coming to inevitably stop him from continuing what he has been