research on Psychological films

psycological thrillers create suspence that makes the audience think, understand or create meaning towards the films. majority of the time the suspence or mental nature comes from one main character, where characters resolves conflicts with their own mind, usually this conflict is to understand what happened to them and why they are in such a mental state.

Themes of psycoogical thrillers

• reality
• perception
• mind
• existance/purpose
• identity
• death

examples psycological thrillers

Memento

The main character suffers from short-term  memory loss and uses notes and tattoos to remember information in order to find the man that killed his wife. what makes this film so rememarable is the use of polaroid in order for his to remember his action and surrounding.

Inception

The theme of this fiml would mind and perception. A world where technology allows the chartacters to invade peoples dreams and change or influence them on a choice. throughout this film there is a number of mind blowing suspence and even some confusion to make the viewers think and try and keep up to speed

Seven
two detectives hunts in search for a serial killer whos uses the seven deadly sins as a motif to kill people. this film involves some relgious elements but twists them in the mind of a evil and mentally unstable murderer. this coveys the theme of mind, having a certain mind frame can lead people to do anything