"Unknown"
Director:
Jaume Collet-Serra
Writers:
Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell
Stars:
Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones
This thriller is based in Germany where by a double agent is in a car crash, the result of this is the lost of parts of his memory. As a double agent he had a cover story it was at the point of waking up from the crash had he started believing his cover story. The McGuffin behind this story is the world food organisation, this drives the story at the beginning until we see whats really happening.
In the film we see a key scene of tension where we see Liam Neeson's character reaching for scissors to cut throw the cable tie, to escape from the man who is trying to kill him. We see that they have edited the scene so that we don't know whether he has picked the scissors up before the man drags away the body that he is trying to get the scissors from. By doing this audience is brought into a scene where they are being kept in the dark they don't know whether he will get away or not. We don't know whether he picks up the scissors or not because of the use of the close ups on his characters face, using the close ups with the disorientating music allows for a feeling of confusion to the audience, it also shows how the character himself is confused.
Another scene that has good effect is the club scene this is because of its Loud booming soundtrack which is disorientating and threatening. This scene comes after the scene of the car chase, now the producer has achieved well edited set of scenes, from going into a scene where there is confusing and disorientating shots from a short cut scene where there is a lot of action going on.
