Thriller genre can be recognised by their conventions. I looked at two thriller films, insomnia and memento, to identify these conventions.
One of the conventions present in both films was shot in dark and deserted places. Another is that the shots were at odd angles, making the audience feel uncomfortable. Furthermore, the effects used, like the blurred vision and the time rewinding back, was really bizarre and out of place, to show that something isn’t right. This feeling that something isn’t right was reinforced by the strange scenes shown at the start of both films, like the man who was wiping the blood and the man who was shot and was on the floor. All these things help create tension.
These are the conventions used in the films “Insomnia” and “Memento”.
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