Conventions of thriller opening- The Children

Click here to view the Children


•Thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas.
•The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" accustomed to danger. However, they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident.
•Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened.
•Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments.
•Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others.
•In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process.

This film took place in the countryside at christmas so the setting was quite quaint. The Hero in this film was a teenage girl so she is in no way a 'hard man'. The plan ov the 'killer' is never uncovered because there is no killer character.

The scale of the crime seems small but at the end of the film it is revealed that it is actually much greater. There are alot of violent confrontations and you think the teenager has saved herself and her mum untill the last seconds of the film.