Genre of our film

Our film would be a psychological drama which would make the audience emphasise with the emotionally unstable main character due to their obsession with a task and the audience seeing them perform this task throughout the film. The film would have characters who aren't totally in reality so they're a little bit censored  from the world as their thoughts are in a haze. The film should involve an unreliable character as our main character is supposedly mental and therefore the audience knows that they shouldn't believe his thoughts but they can't help but do.

Our character would be similar in this way to Francis from The cabinet of dr caligari where he finds out he's a patient in a mental asylum and Jane who he claims to be his wife is also a patient in the asylum. The twist of this is comparable to how our film is also.

Themes of our psychological thriller/drama

• Perception- our character can't see what's really there

• Identity- he doesn't know who he really is

• Love- he loves his wife so much that he has to search for her

• Guilt- covers up the fact he's murdered his wife because of the guilt he feels 

• Obsession- obsessed with finding out where his wife is- this theme would be similar to the film Zodiac which involves a cartoonist acting as a detective whose so obsessed with finding out who the Zodiac killer is that he becomes alienated from his family and friends

• Factual- the ending is left so that you have a very good idea of what happened and why the character is reacting the way they are in the film similar to shutter island

'Which would be worse to live as a monster or to die as a good man?'

• Mental illness-which is also similar to shutter island as he doesn't know he's got a wife and doesn't realise that he shot her