MEMENTO: Momento has a very interesting beginning but at the same time still come into the thriller genre by some of the conventions that it holds. For example it has a central question for the audience which is based on the story, so for example in Momento, the main questions are who and what is the man looking for? as the film is made backwards, we get those questions. It has a gritty style to it that is common in thrillers, and has some very graphic action that is common in violent, murder happy thrillers.
BRICK: Brick has a shocking opening that once again makes the viewer wonder what has happened prior to the scene we start with. It begins with a boy looking anxiously over the other side of a stream at a girl who appears to be dead. This immediately gives us a question as to what has happened, the music adds to the tension as well as there is a creepy xylophone style song playing in the background. When we realize he is a schoolboy at the end, we see a creepier side to the story.
ZODIAC: Zodiac's suspense during the opening of the film comes from the murder that occurs when the married woman takes a younger man out to the woods during the 4th of July. The music does a great job of setting the mood at ease by being quite relaxed, but when the murderer returns back in his car we realize that there is a problem. The killing itself gives us the question of who killed them, and why?
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