Memento We get a close up of the marshals badge Immediately, we get this vision of foggy, and this idea or security is typical in thrill- mysterious seas. The idea they’re lost or Shutter Island er films. The need to be safe in these ex- hiding. The dull colours are really effective traordinary situations, and having a close in that they foreshadow the future, being up emphasises the need to be safe. bleak and possibly hopeless.

The use the gun is typical for a thrill- er film. This creates the tension and The setting switches to this secluded run action that is always related to the down area, which creates tension and em- genre. Such iconography presented phasises the gloomy, dark, low key lighting so immediately suggests the film will which foreshadows something bad is going The antagonist is al- The main character is consist of similar acts of violence. to happen. most unusual, as alt- a typical thriller mov- hough we get the ini- ie character because tial shooting of him, at the start he seems you may not realise it like a normal detec- is him who’s been tive but then he killed. When the pro- ends up pulling out a tagonist meets him in gun and shooting the real-time starting someone. This Iconography Settings of the film, they’re implies that he has Symbolic representation, The surroundings where quite friendly to one some sort of a secret with generally quite con- the action will unfold. another, which really life. ventional meanings. confuses the viewer for later on.

Protagonist Antagonist Our first view of the The leading character, The person who is op- The antagonist is protagonist is of his hero or heroine of the Thriller Film posed to or competing presented only after reflection, which is literary work. against another person. a huge number of very weak and ill and Conventions hurdles, and this pre- this is slightly atypical, sents the idea that as the protagonist is he’s strong and pro- generally quite hero tected, and the pro- and powerful, he’s pre- tagonists fight will be sented as fragile which Visual Style Enigma (Mystery) Themes one of difficulty, as is is actually used to affec- All you can see, the cam- The narrative in thrillers What the films story line typical of the thriller tively grasp the atten- era angles, lighting and tend to include an enig- is based upon. genre. tion of the audience, a s edits. ma, to cause consumers a relatable experience- to question themselves seasickness. and the film.

This presents the themes of lost desti- The use of low key ny, and corruption or lighting illuminates conspiracy. It also the protagonist presents the very which gives him a typical theme of sort of heroic sense death, and a rather compared to the spooky one at that antagonist . The because it’s a com- proxemics suggest munal ’remember us’ that the character and emphasises the closer to the camera mystery. is more important. Natural framing is used in the visual style Throughout the sequence, there are We get this enigma of the aban- Themes persisting in the sequence of this thriller, which is quite typical, be- polaroid pictures, which create this doned /isolated island and it pre- include death, revenge and illness. cause it focuses the viewer, and in this case enigma and mystery as the consumer sents all kinds of questions to the The crime theme is also included to the area they’re entering. It almost traps is confused as to why he keeps refer- viewer, and a fearful suspense of within this, and is a very typical them, just as the people inside are encing them, but more importantly, what they’re getting themselves theme. trapped. what caused him to have to keep us- into. ing them, what injured him?