We Own the Night:Lighting and Setting

We Own the Night was set in Brooklyn, New York, in Brighton. The lighting in the movie was overall dark; for example, Burt Gruskinsky's funeral, and drug lord's Vadim's assassination. But it also became colorful, like in Bobby's hotel room while playing poker,or being in Bobby's nightclub, which carried a good feeling of careless partying/fun. There were some dolly shots and handheld shots; some handhelds being Bobby going through the tall grasslands trying to find Vadim, where the camera is meant to be from Bobby's eye view point. One unique shot being when Bobby gets a sack put over his head to keep the drug shack anonymous, the camera gets the sack put over it, too, to convey the feeling of not knowing where you're going, a fear, sort of.