Thursday 13 January 2011

Thriller Conventions

Psychological Thriller Conventions.


  • Central theme of identity - Mistaken identify, stolen identity ( amnesia), dual identity doppelgangers.
  • Perception - Often the narrative is shown from the perspective of multiple characters.
  • Reality - confussion between what is and what isn't different to the normal established within the film. 
  • Memory - The torture of an individual by a traumatic search for a last memory. 
  • Stream of conscience - The viewer is invited to identify with the psyche of a particular character. 
  • Unreliable narrator - the person telling us the story is resolved untrustworthy, the viewers get a sense of rewinding and fast forwarding of events non-linear narrative editing. 
  • Imagery - the eyes in the regular visual motif 

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