Question:“On films that hold your breath”
On films that hold your breath
A thriller is the craft of making you need the next scene. If two hours vanished, the film did its work.
Three descend. Do not look up the plot first. Not knowing is the ticket to this genre.
- The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)Conversations through a glass wall are enough to tighten the whole film.
- Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)Follow seven sins and you end standing before the last box.
- No Country for Old Men (the Coen brothers, 2007)A coin toss has never been this frightening.
Odysseus passed through the narrow water between Scylla and Charybdis.