London to Brighton is a 2006 award winning film written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams and funded by the UK Film Council (BFI). The film opens with a woman and a child bursting into a London toilet during the early hours of the morning in a mannerism that makes the audience aware they are running away from something or someone. The older woman Kelly is shown to have a black eye so has evidently been injured in a fight or a similar activity, the younger girl Joanne is crying and seems very distressed due to the circumstances the two of them are in. An enigmatic narrative is used in order to make the audience question things such as; What has happened to them? What is their relationship with one another? The titles that appear are extremely simple and to the point as they just include the name of the production and distribution company, and also the details of the time and place of the scene that follows. The fact that the titles are minimalistic on a plain black background doesn't give any of the film away, not even the genre. The film is structured in a non-linear way so the opening scene is actually a scene from midway through the film, this intrigues the audience because they are eager to know what happened before and what will happen after.
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