This is an excellent example of an iconic start to a thriller. Firstly, it asks the audience lots of questions and therefore gets them on the edge of their seats because they want to find out the answers to their questions.
The first shot asks many questions in terms of what the picture is and who has sent the parcel. This creates an enigma and mystery among the audience. This scene takes up over one minute and therefore, it has been designed to build up mystery because of the amount of medium and close up shots. In fact, only the last shot is bigger than a medium throughout the whole section.
In addition to that, in the next scene, the girl is walking through subways through the night with the addition of low key lighting. This makes the audience unsure about the character because the lighting suggests that she is insecure and vulnerable, which is the stereotype, in not just thriller films, but in most films. The director may have done this to not go by the archetype of a standard thriller film.
However, she also challenges the idea of femininity because she is wearing a black hoodie. That ensures that the audience does not exactly know who is the protagonist and antagonist straight away which creates doubt.
The first two minutes also creates the binary opposition due to the old man in the first scene and that we are lead to believe that the girl walking is very young.
Well done Tom good use of links throughout the work make sure you keep it up when you post the rest of the thriller openings
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