HRD Providing and Withholding Information

This technique is used as a way to make the audience curious and intrigued. For example in the film Ocean’s Eleven the audience is presented the information that they are about to be arrested and have failed in their robbery of the casino, when in reality they faked the entire thing and walk out with the money. This is an example of providing and withholding information, it provides false information that they failed but withholds the information that the real robbery just included faking the robbery by doing a duplicate video to be shown and then walking in as the police and taking it all. It can be used for any number of reasons the main reason being to confuse and distract the viewer to the truth of what is happening in the film misleading them.