Friday, 30 March 2012
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Se7en
In this hugely influential thriller, a veteran homicide detective (Morgan Freeman) and his young partner (Brad Pitt) pursue a serial killer who is selecting his victims according to the Seven Deadly Sins. Director David Fincher pioneers the recent style of rain-lashed gloom in a chiller with more twists than a corkscrew factory. One of those rare films where a Hollywood ending was notable by its absence. Don't watch it alone.
Codes and Conventions of Psychological Thriller
- Definition of Psychological: Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person.
- Definition of Thriller: A novel, play, or movie with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage.
- Psychological thrillers are a sub-genre within the “Thriller” genre.
- Often has rapid editing as the suspense builds, sometimes with high suspense that results in nothing. Keeping the viewer in constant suspense.
- Often gives insights to the past in order to help build the understanding of the character and how he got in the situation he finds himself in.
- Re-occurring themes in psychological thrillers include Reality, Perception, Identity, Death and sanity of Mind.
- Frequent storylines can include a family member going missing, or an unsolved mystery from the past coming back up.
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Psychological Thriller Genre
"Source Code" Opening Five Minutes
"Se7en" Title Sequence
"Shutter Island" Trailer
Psychological Thriller Genre
Notice inclusion of lost love ones, well kept secrets and the necessity to escape within all the patients as well as Leonardo Di Caprio's character.
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