Thursday, 11 February 2010

Psychological Thriller Themes

Psychological Thrillers follow certain themes. These themes are as follwed:
  • Reality - the quality of being real. Try to determin what is true and what is not true within the narrative.
  • Perception - a persons own interpretation of the world around him through his own senses.
  • Mind -  the human consciousness; the location for personaliy through reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. The mind is often used as a location for narrative conflict.
  • Existance/Purpose - the object for which something exist. e.g. an aim or goal humans towards to understand their reason for existance.
  • Identity - the definition of one's self. e.g. characters confused about who they are or doubt who they are and try to discover their true identity.
  • Death - the cession of life. e.g. characters fear or have a fascination with death.
We hope to in our opening to  show aspects of these themes.

Examples of Psychological Thriller films:
  • Childs Play
  • Donnie Darko
  • The Exorcist
  • Halloween
  • Hannibal
  • Memento
  • Panic Room
  • Jaws
  • The Island
  • Psycho
  • Saw
  • The Zodiac

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