The film The Krays is based on the lives of British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, known as the Kray twins. The opening scene is set in an old-fashioned house in the 1960s-1970s and shows a woman giving birth while attended by a midwife dressed in white and black. Camera techniques like close-ups, tracks, and high angles are used to draw attention to a flying bird and the vulnerable screaming woman during the birth. Non-diegetic gloomy music plays throughout, except for the sounds of the woman's screams during labor and talking in the background.