Our lesson explored the concept of the thriller genre and clearly identified its key conventions. The thriller genre is a difficult genre to explain because so a lot of the emotions and reactions that come from Thrillers are part of the whole understanding of film. It is a ‘meta-genre’. A good example of a film with the genre ‘Thriller’ is ‘Don’t Look Now’. A Thriller film relies on complexity of plot to generate fear, apprehension and suspense in the hearts and minds of the viewers. Thrillers need to make the audience question the film not be confused but question why? Etc. Most Thrillers have themes such as love, money or death at the heart of the film. It is this struggle that frequently enthralls the viewer. A Thriller is really a film in which the director causes hurt and anguish to the characters with in it. Our enjoyment is derived from their distress.
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