The film was beautifully made, the editing constantly gave a bleak feel, the music of the film which we actually took some, due to the fact it was so moving and we felt it fitted our film well. Lastly the acting from Leonardo Dicaprio who had a difficult part to play, especially towards the end where he confronts the truth about his wifes death, worked together wonderfully to give the sense of paranoia, and make audiences distrust characters and always be routing for 'Teddy' to be the character who is telling the truth. This is the direction we would want our film to go if it carried on, a film where sanity is questioned and audiences don't know who the 'good guy' is. It really makes use of it's cast, having Ben Kingsley as Dr John Cawley, an actor who can really make the most pleasant of characters have a sinister feel. Having Mark Ruffalo as 'Chuck' really helped audiences relate to him (before the ending) as he just does everything 'Teddy' says and doesn't know who to believe.
There are several reasons why I want to mention this film but I think the main reason is that it has a lot of 'Wait, What!?' moments in it, much like 'Donnie Darko'. For example the scenes with the rats coming out of the rock, just after he is convinced Chuck has jumped off a cliff, the audience begins to question the reality of the events, which I think a successful Psychological thriller needs to be able to do. Another example would be towards the end where he blows up a car and the backing music quietens for a few seconds as his dead wife walks towards a little girl and watches him. Our attempt at element in Thriller would be where our Protagonist is facing the camera and the killers hands rub his body. We did this to be creepy and unsettling, it doesn't have meaning exact meaning, we wanted it to be a talking point, a moment that's open to interpretation. We just wanted people to be uncomfortable watching it and making them question what's really happening.
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