Throughout its history, world cinema has created hundreds of thrillers with an unexpected ending; the 1960 film "Psycho" by Alfred Hitchcock is considered the founder of the genre. Most of these films combine the genres of detective and horror, psychological thrillers, which reveal the darkest depths of the human personality, for example, "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Buried Alive" are of particular interest.
Instructions
Step 1
The Sixth Sense, 1999.
Director and Screenplay: M. Night Shyamalan Cast: Bruce Willis, Hayley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Night Shyamalan's film became a thriller classic with an unexpected ending. The tandem of Bruce Willis, who plays a child psychiatrist in this film, and Haley Joel Osment as a boy who sees ghosts, was created for lovers of stunning acting and intense storytelling.
Step 2
"Fight Club", 1999.
Director: David Fincher. Screenplay: Jim Uls, Chuck Palahniuk Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
Fight Club was filmed the same year as The Sixth Sense and is also considered a classic of the genre. The film explores the themes of the depth of insanity and self-destruction, the struggle with the system and oneself, the cult of strength and anarchy. Based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club has become a cinematic manifesto of resistance to the values of the consumer society. “We go to jobs that we hate to buy things that we don't need,” Tyler Darden says through the mouth of Brad Pitt. The enchanting ending puts all the dots on the i's, forever imprinting this film in memory and giving rise to painful doubts about his own life choice.
Step 3
"Deja vu", 2006.
Director: Tony Scott. Written by: Bill Marsili, Terry Rossio Cast: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer, James Caviezel, Adam Goldberg
Agent Doug Carlin investigates the murder of a girl in New Orleans and discovers a connection between this crime and the recent explosion of a ferry. As part of a team of physicists, using unprecedented "technologies of the future", he is trying to figure out the terrorist, watching the last days of the life of the deceased girl. The clue is getting closer, but Doug cannot come to terms with the idea that Claire Kuchever's fate is a foregone conclusion. And he decides to "jump into the past" to try to save her before it's too late.
Step 4
The Life of David Gale, 2003.
Director: Alan Parker. Screenplay: Charles Randolph. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Gabriel Mann
Two university professors, David Gale and Constance Harraway, are friends, colleagues and associates in the fight to abolish the death penalty. The fatal illness of one and the complete collapse of life of the other bring them closer together and suggest a last, desperate way to give meaning to a dying existence by dedicating their deaths to what they fought for in life. As a result, David ends up on death row for the murder of Constance.
Step 5
"Dragonfly", 2002.
Director: Tom Shadyak. Screenplay: Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson. Cast: Kevin Costner, Suzanne Thompson, Joe Morton
Joe Arrow takes the death of his wife hard, and mystical events and coincidences only aggravate his state of mind. In the oncology ward, near-death children tell Joe about their encounters with Emily “on the other side,” and he gets more and more evidence that his wife is trying to reach him and tell him something important.
"Dragonfly" is a film about the power of mother's love, about how a mother will find a way to protect and save her child, even having lost her corporeal shell, even if for this she will have to overcome many levels of consciousness and being that separate the spiritual and material worlds.
