The Girl On The Train

The girl on the train:

The genre of this film is a thriller, the audience are able to work this out by the way the whole trailer is based around a murder of a girl called Megan. The audience are made to believe that one of the main characters called Rachel is responsible for Megan’s death however little do they know, it was all Rachel’s imagination and Rachel is not the killer of Megan.

They have used the song ‘Heartless ‘by the well know singer Kanye West. The song fits in well with the trailer because he is singing about being heartless and being cold and to have the capability and mentality to kill another human makes you heartless and cold blooded.

At the beginning of the trailer they focus mainly on the girl who gets murdered in the film (Megan) and she is speaking about all the struggled she is facing. They also show you all the connections Megan has in relation to her such as her husband, the family she nannies for, her councillor and her stalker. The reason they have introduced you to all of these characters in the trailer is to show the audience all the potential suspects who could have killed her however the producer have made it look like one character is to blame. This links in with one of the conventions of a thriller because they have created suspense and excitement for the audience as they want to know and work out who the killer is. This also links in with another convention because it revolves around an investigation of an enigma.

In the trailer they have used shots of Rachel being questioned by the police which is a key convention in a thriller film this also encourages the audience to believe it was Rachel who killed Megan.

In a thriller movie the hero and the villain although they are on opposing sides, share similar characteristics or have links with each other. In this film Rachel is the hero and her ex husband is the villain but they use to be together which is what gives them the link between each other.

In this trailer you are able to work out that Rachel plays an isolated secretive role as she has no relation to Megan. Rachel use to see Megan every morning and night travelling to and from work. The train use to stop outside Megan’s home and Rachel would gaze out of the window and dream about what it would be like to have what she thought was a happy ever after. This links in with another convention because the hero is always the outsider.