A biochemist and his dishy wife arrive in berline for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research.
while his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab and with no hesitation returned back to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb where he had suppose to have left his briefcase, on his way to the airport and auto accident puts him in a coma, where he lays there for a couple of days, when he awakes he is unable to recover some of his memory and he had no identification of who he was so no one could identify him to maybe contact his family. with help from a nurse and cab driver, a retired stasi agent, and a academic friend, he tries to unravel what was going on. now we as an audience are going on this journey with him to help unravel who he is and what his mission actually is.
the thriller show some cinematography and shows how a thriller should really be like, the trailer captivates the audience and foreshadows what will happen at the end of the movie.
Key scenes of tension:
• Film has essential characteristic of a good thriller - moments of high tension.
• e.g. The hospital scene reaching for scissors leading to murder.
1. Soundtrack effective – disorientating sounds
2. Use of close up.
3. Fast editing leading up to the escape.
4. Analyse the scene in the Flat
The Club Scene
This scene is effective because:
• Loud booming soundtrack – disorientating and threatening
• Screen dark – only shadows – indistinct – the viewer shares the main character’s confusion.
In this film White Western people are portrayed as the dominant group and the immigrants are the subordinate group we know this because they are frightened of being deported and they have very low paid jobs. This archetype represents ethnic minorities and it is a negative representation of the opposing race.
"erm it might be interesting to play someone who is confused all the way up until the last 20 minutes of the film" - 1:50. This reflects on Todorov's theory especially in the 'disruption' faze.
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