Steal Away Short Film

In today's lesson, we watched Steal Away, directed by Charles McDougall. The film follows the life of two young rebellious individuals who steal money from a car in London. The car driver shoots at both of the thieves, however both assumingly miss the bullets and escape into a tube station, where they board a 'ghost' tube- which symbolises the tube to judgment day. Michael, the main protagonist, asks for forgiveness on the tube by performing an act of kindness to a beggar, thus, giving him admittance to heaven. Michael’s admittance to heaven is symbolised in his train ticket being accepted at the ticket machine, which his accomplishes is denied.
I feel the film conforms to the notions of what to expect from a short film by its broken genre and disequilibrium structure. The film has strong religious connotations through it biblical representation of ‘god’ on the tube and being cleansed. The film’s representation of colour is emphasised through the movie and is used as a vital component in connecting the audience to the story. The use of red in the movie symbolised danger, passion and excitement, sin and hell. This was used in the scene where the couple forced the money case open to an exploding red ink mist- All representation of the colour red was expressed through their character connection.
The use of white in the film represented heaven, cold, purity and cleansing.

Steal Away- TUEB TALES.