Mystic River

In this scene, Jimmy's light face is juxtaposed against the dark uniforms worn by the police officers aggressively harnessing his desperate effort to see his daughter's body.  This is dominant contrast, isolating the emotions in his face to differentiate himself from the other beings in the crowd.  This along with the godseye angle gives the viewer a unique and emotional perspective on the heart-wrenching scene.

In this early scene, David Fincher uses parallelism later in the movie so the viewer can make the connection between when Dave was kidnapped as a kid and when Jimmy and the Savage brothers take him away  This is another method of getting the viewer to perceive the dominant(Dave), as trapped. Because he was so innocent when it happened to him as a kid, the parallelism helps him seem obviously innocent later on in the movie when he is taken in the back of a car again,

As Jimmy looks across the parade in this scene, he sees Sean point a finger-gun at his head as to say "gotcha".  Though this action can be interpreted differently, the cinema technique of depth is the same.  It is used to focus in correctly on Sean, despite all of the commotion going on around him in the parade.  This highlights the effect of Sean's action, but still gives it the view from Jimmy, to seem distant and unreachable, which is what Jimmy wants considering Sean knows he killed Dave.

This frame shows one of the men who kidnapped and raped Dave when he was a boy.  It uses closed form because the red hat sticks out from the rest of the frame, showing the importance of Dave later on in the movie.  The closed from technique is calculated function of an object to give more meaning to the character or object as a hole, and this red does just that.  It shows that he will be the one to be singled out and ultimately killed by one of his friends, just because he is a bit different.

This is the classic shot using the film technique of mise en scene.  The specific placement of the booth, the table, and later one of the Savage brothers all around Dave makes dave seemed trapped, and instantly dominated by those around him.  Also, the empty shot glasses suggest that he is intoxicated, effecting his decision making and perception bad situations.