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Thriller Spoiler Reviews- Black swan, shutter island, room mate.

Shutter Island

Shutter Island is a psychological thriller about two U.S marshals, Edward Daniels and Chuck Aule, who has been given the task to investigate Ashecliffe hospital for the criminally insane, on an account of a patient, Rachel Solando going missing. Already the eeriness of the film sets in purely by the fact that it’s all set in a questionable insane asylum. The manic depressive women that the two marshals are after was incarcerated because she drowned her three children. After being on the island a while and after thorough investigation Solando is not found by the marshals, but instead just ends up being found by the facilities staff. Suspicions rise and Edward soon finds out the real reason he was there. Shutter island shows the eerie and un-trustable patients of an asylum telling Edward all about the real means of him being there, although he still denies everything, the audience cant help but think what the other patients are saying about him could be true. With the audience on edge about the discoveries Edward makes and the truths he uncovers it is clear why it’s classed a psychological thriller.

Black Swan

Black swan is another psychological thriller about a girls plummet into insanity caused by her revile in a part for lead role in the ballet performance of swan lake. Nina Sayers is up for the role of the swan queen, but is not admirable to do so but her rival lily is, after all the controversy throughout the movie, like her mother’s doubts and her director always deciding on lily as opposed to herself, she spirals into a living nightmare, causing wild hallucinations, dreams and also causing her to act erratically. 

Roommate

Roommate is a basic thriller about a girl named Sara Matthews who starting her freshman year of college. She meets Tracy, Stephen, her love interest, and Rebecca, her roommate. Initially, the girls begin to bond and Rebecca learns that Sara had an older sister, Emily, who died when Sara was 9, and an ex-boyfriend, Jason, who keeps calling her in attempts to reconcile. As time goes on, Rebecca's obsession with Sara grows, which causes her to drive away anyone who could come between them.

My Napoleon Dynamite title sequence remake.

9 frame analysis of a thriller opening

Orphan

00:53

The first person you see at the very beginning of the movie is this women, so from the start the audience knows who the main focus of the film will be on.

01:12

The strange blurred affect on all the people around the focus either has been used to make the other people seem insignificant or has been used to signify a dream sequence.

02:05

its at this point were the dream sequence is made more obvious by adding in this rather disturbing scene that the orderly doesn't take notice of. 

02:26

every now and the all the lights in the room blur, this is used to signify that our focused character (the women) keeps slipping in and out of consciousness. its also at this point were the dream sequence is more of a nightmare.

02:52

the fact that her husband is still filming her even though she is having a "still birth", shows she is the only one in pain a distress as everyone else in the room is treating it as a perfectly normal situation.

03:14

the nurse still presents her baby to her, even though it is covered in blood, its at this point were she has reached the climax of her nightmare. the way the nightmare sequence switches from a women in a normal labour scenario, to this hellish birth making her re-live a this already traumatic moment of her life, but somehow is made even more twisted. these first few scenes make the beginning of the film so bizarre, the audience has no idea whats to come and what can change.

03:18

even though so far the movie has been hinting "its all a dream", its at this point that its made absolutely clear that it was a dream. the audience has learnt so far that the focused character has a extremely traumatic past.

03:51

our focus character has now revealed to the audience the "literal" scar of her torment all those years ago.  its quite symbolic as it not only physically scarred her but mentally and emotionally as well, proven by the twisted dream she just had.

04:12

after all of this, the audience now knows that the focus character is a broken women, tormented in her dreams by her past affecting her physically and emotionally.

Thriller title sequence timeline: SE7EN

T1: New Line Cinema (a TimeWarner company) - 00:12
T2: New Line Cinema presents - 04:15
T3: An Arnold Kopelson Production - 04:19
T5: A film by David Fincher - 04:22
T6: Brad Pitt (Actor) - 04:26
T7: Morgan Freeman (Actor) - 04:26
T8: "SE7EN" - 04:36
T9: Gwyneth Paltrow (Actress) - 04:42
T10: Richard Roundtree (Actor) - 04:45
T11: R.LeeErmey (Actor) - 04:50
T12: John C. McGinley (Actor) - 04:54
T13: Julie Araskog & Mark Boone Jr. (Actors) - 04:58
T14: John Cassini, Reginald E. Cathy & Peter Crombie (Actors) - 05:06
T15: Hawthrone James, Micheal Massee & Leland Orser (Actors) - 05:09
T16: Richard Partnaw, Richard Schiff & Pamala Tyson (Actors) - 05:16
T17: Casting by Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith & Kerry Bordon - 05:23
T18: Music by Howard Shore - 05:28
T19: Costumes designed by Micheal Kaplan - 05:33
T20: Edited by Richard Francis-Bruce - 05:36
T21: Production designed by Arthur Max - 05:38
T22: Director of photography Darius Khondji - 05:47
T23: Co-Producers Stephen Brown, Nana Greenwald & Sanford Panitch - 05:51
T24: Co-Executive Producers Lynn Harris & Richard Saperstien - 05:55
T25: Executive Producers Gianni Nunnari, Dan Kulsrud & Anne Kapelsum - 06:02
T26: Written by Andrew Kevin Walker - 06:05
T27: Produced by Arnold Kopelson & Phyllis Carlyle - 06:10
T28: Directed by David Fincher - 06:16

 

this is my collage of all elements i believe appear in the thriller genre.

Conventions of the genre: Thriller.