Understanding clues used in teaser trailers

I looked at the teaser trailer for the film 'As If I Am Not There', and analysed the clues given throughout in greater depth to see if I could guess the storyline. Before researching the film these are the clues that I found in the trailer:

·         Number tattooed on wrist- owned by someone else

·         Running towards cliff- trying to escape

·         Locked in room

·         Facial expressions- woman looks blind- extreme fear, petrified. Blank, almost possessed.

·         Setting- Doesn’t look like England because of the mountain ranges and types of trees. Children riding on a horse suggest the culture and the animals that people have in that country.

·         Clothing- what the women wear makes them look European, and poor e.g. headscarves. This suggests that they have nothing in their lives, and they cannot be free like they want to be.

·          Beginning and end link together as she is in the same clothes.

·         Theme of travelling throughout- riding the horse, bus journey. Another feature they have in common is the slamming of the door and the slamming sound when it shows the institutional information.

·         Could be refugees as they are under someone else's control.

·         Men and women are separate- suggests how the women in the film will be treated and that the men could be controlling.

·         Sound is slow and sad- indicates that it is going to be effect people emotionally.

·         Apart from music there is no dialogue and only a door slam at the end, which suggests the emptiness that the woman feels in her life.

·         The woman is about 20 whereas the men are older, and then there are the young girls who are about 10 or 11 years of age3·        

• Woman is with different men all the way through- so there is a suggestion that she could be a prostitute.

After looking at these clues I think that the film will be about a woman who is trapped from freedom. I think that she will be a prostitute for the various men she is with, and that she does not want to do any of the things they are making her. Eventually she may be allowed freedom, but I am not sure because of the fact she is locked in the room at the end.

What actually happens in the film:

"A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable."