Comparing thriller conventions

This film is called Memento, it is an American pychological Thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne-Moss, Joe Pantaliano and more. The film shows two different alternatives, one in colour shown in reverse order and one in black and white in chronilogical order. This relates to the genre and helps the audience to understand the genre type along with the narrative. The reason for this editing technique is to suggest the pyschological genre and the reason for this being pyschological is because of the manipulative mind-playing filming and editing. For instance 'shaky filming'. The Film is also about the main character being manipulated and his mind playing tricks on him and the way it is filmed puts you as the audience in his position. That is how it becomes a pyschological thriller.



This film is called D-Tox directed and starred by Syllvester Stalone. It is a mystery thriller. The film is about finding a mystery killer who no-one knows. The whole film builds up towards planning and finding this mystery. The reason for this being a mystery thriller is obviously within the narrative, but also by the way it is filmed, lots of short, snappy shots. the film gets you thinking and does not allow the audience to understand fully what is happening towards the end. There is also a lot of action to find the killer and this therefore concludes to a mystery thriller genre.

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