It then blacks out comes up with the movie title and blacks out again. It then cuts to an old style train track where a man is walking along the tracks and then a close up is used on his feet when he stops on the track and stands there. It then shows the man putting what seems to be oil on the track, you then hear a dietetic sound of a train and then see a shot of the train, which then builds up speed in the narrative as the camera focuses on the wheels. A shot of the driver is then used.
It then cuts to a mountain and a man is running furiously through the woods, which is the same man that was running to the bomb, he then gets to the mountains. An over the shoulder shot is used to see what the man is seeing and he can see the train going through the mountains. A close up of someone's feet is then used to present someone is chasing him, he then begins to start running again. It then cuts back to the scene where the bomb is and then same man running towards the bomb (therefore match on action is being used). It then shows a dog chasing after him and at the same speed or what the camera has seemed it to be it cuts to the train. A close up is then used to show the man on the tracks putting his ear on the tracks and then a fast tracking shot is used to track the tracks to where the train is.
The man then begins to pull the leaver for the tracks and then the man with the bomb begins to cut the wires. However the leaver doesn't seem to be moving and the train is getting closer and closer as he begins to panic that he won't be able to change them. Match on action is then used as when he finally gets the leaver to move the man also cuts the wire to the bomb. The train then successfully drives though the track and a close up is used on the man's face to show his relief. It then blacks out and shows a close up of the wires and the man. A zoom in shot is then used to see that the bomb has been stopped as it is on 42 seconds, the same number that the man is on the level of, therefore is this number a clue to the audience? It then begins to start counting down and the man's eyes open quickly starting all of the action again, it then cuts to the man running away from the dog's again and then begins to show the train again, however the man is working with coal this time. A 42 is then showed on the front of the train.
Then all three scenes then begin to go down hill as the man running begins to start loosing energy the man running the train comes to a track that is spilt however is too late as he can't stop the train and the man with the bomb does not know what else to do as the wires have already been cut. The match on action makes the narrative very tense at this point as the timer of the bomb will match when the train will fall off the tracks. It then continues to use close ups of the man's face and then the timer and then train leaving the audience on the edge of their seats and waiting for something to stop everything bad happening at the last second. However this does not happen as the train does fall off the tracks, the timer then begins to become very slow in the last second as if the last second was a minute. It then becomes very fast again and the man cuts another wire. However this film leaves the audience on the edge of their seats as it then cuts to the credits.
In my opinion I liked the film's techniques a lot as they worked as the creator intended them too, however I find the storyline very unclear as there was no explanation as to why the man was in multiple different places at once as they couldn't be flashbacks due to the fact he would of died in the train, however this may be what the creator intended.
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