Cinematic heist-movie shot, night, inside a dark Parisian bakery lit only by red security lasers crisscrossing the room. A grey city pigeon wearing a tiny black balaclava is lowered slowly from a skylight on a thin wire, wings tucked, dodging the laser beams while tense heist strings play. It reaches the glass display case and lifts a single golden croissant with its beak. The croissant is too heavy: the wire snaps, pigeon and croissant drop onto the counter with a soft thud, the alarm blares, and the pigeon freezes and stares straight into the camera, deadpan. Photoreal, shallow depth of field, anamorphic film look, comedic timing on the final beat.
