Unknown

Unknown is a modern thriller which came out in the year 2011. The film is about a man which wakes up from a coma, that he got into from a car accident, to only discover that his life, his wife, his everything has been taken by someone else that he doesn't know. No one believes him and that is including his wife, with the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who is, yet he finds out a terrible truth about himself that he forgot.

The director of this film is Jaume Collet-Serra, the writers of the film were Stephen and Oliver Butcher, which worked on the screenplay of the movie. The stars of the film are Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones.

This film has essential characteristic which makes it a good thriller, the reason for this is because of the g moments of high tension,  A example of this would be the hospital scene when Liam Neeson is reaching for the scissors leading to the murder. Fast editing was used to show that there is a scenes of danger and a limit of time that he must get the scissors to escapes before the murder comes in.

In this image we see a screen shot of the two characters together. There is great use of mise-en-scene in this scene. The reason for this is because of the colour which has been used. The colour which has been used is red, what this inferring to them is that there in danger, but it also shows a scenes of love in between the two characters.

In the trailer we see lots of technical uses that gives the audience a thrilling feel. The main parts of the trailer I would like to speak about. We first see the start of the trailer with Liam Neeson and his wife arriving in Germany, then there has been a use of fast editing to show that there is action and that danger. There is also a scene in the trailer with a rolling shot to show the confusion between the two characters, and as the trailer progresses we see there has been more use of fast editing to show us the danger and the action, this gives a thrill to the audience.