The last scene of the film Of Mice and Men directed by Gary Sinise, Is a classic example of how a director can use various film techniques to reveal and reinforce certain themes within a text. The director uses such techniques such as high camera angles to suggest inferiority in some characters. He also uses symbolism to reinforce those themes. The themes in the text are the friendship between George and Lennie and the issue of how sometimes no matter how hard you try, you could ultimately fail.
             Both of these themes are extremely evident throughout out the entire scene.
             Firstly, the scene is directly related to the theme of friendship. Through the following examples of techniques, we can see George's overall companionship with Lennie, and Lennie's continual need for George. The scene begins with George running after Lennie. As he is running he trips over and gets straight back up, significantly signifying George's fight to find Lennie before Curley does. While he is running, the background music gradually gets faster and louder showing a build in suspense in build and tension. A quick shot of Curley's and his henchman on their horses charging forward confirming the reality that George is running out of time. We then see George rushing thorough streams and puddles of water with his eyes looking around for Lennie, at which point we see him in a close-up of his face expressing sudden sadness at the apparent sight of Lennie. This starts to tell us that George is undeniably thinking about Lennie's position and what he possibly might have to do. We then cut to Lennie in a Long-Shot seeing him stumbling around displaying his understandable loss without George. He then turns around and then at first sight of George he starts running towards him with his arms wide open showing straight-away that his major concern is George not Curley or his wife. He then trips over into the water, placing him below George illustrat...