POST 10: WITNESS AS A THRILLER

POST 10: WITNESS AS A THRILLER 

Primary elements of  the Thriller as a genre	Witness as a thriller Illustration in the film
1.Central protagonist(s) The central protagonist(s) faces death, their own or someone else's.	In Witness, the main character, John, is a police officer, in his job, he faces the death again and again. In the car park, for example, he is wounded seriously by the shot of McFee.
2.Force(s) of antagonism The force/s of antagonism must initially be clever and/or stronger than the protagonist.	The force of antagonism is stronger than the protagonist because he doesn’t know who are the murderer but the murderer knows where he is.
3.Main storyline The main storyline for the protagonist is either a quest or the character who cannot be put down.	The  main storyline, is to sue the murderer, thus is a long quest .
4.Main plotline The main plot line focuses on a mystery that must be solved.	Indeed, John searchs McFee and his dirty cops during the whole film. This is the mystery that must be solved.
5.Narrative construction The film's narrative construction is dominated by the protagonist's point of view.	The majority of the film is dominated by the protagonist’s point of view. But the viewer is omniscient too, because he knows what the dirty cops is doing and not the main character.
6.Action and characters All action and characters must be credibly realistic/natural in their representation on screen.	Except the fact that the Amish are not really plain, they are realist, and all the protagonists are too. They are natural because we see their troubles and feelings.
7.Major themes The two major themes that underpin the Thriller are the desire for justice and the morality of individuals.	The desire for justice is really omnipresent because John wants sue the dirty cops and do all he can to do this.
8.Small but significant aspect One small but significant aspect of a great thriller is the presence of innocence in what is seen as an essentially corrupt world.	The innocence is represented by Samuel, the witness, who is a little boy. He is naive but ingenious.