Our extract of a film will begin with a man playing toy cars with his daughter, a toddler. This all appears fine until the little girl accidently drops her car down the stairs, triggering a flashback in the father. We then see the man as a little boy who is playing on his own with his toy cars. From down the stairs, shouting is heard and the little boy peers through the banisters to see what is happening. His parents are having a huge argument, obvious to the fact that their son is watching and suddenly the little boy see's his father kill his mother in a drunken rage. Terrified, the little boy scrabbles to get up and gathers his toys together quickly. It is only when one of his cars falls down the steps that his father becomes away of his son and shouts his name. The flashback ends and the man, now an adult, has a mental breakdown.
The genre of our film extract will be a Psychological Thriller, with the main themes of perception and identity running through it as the lead character has to deal with the recurrence of a repressed memory.
Similar films that will influence our film-making will be others within the psychological thriller genre particularly 'The Bourne Trilogy' and 'Hide and Seek'. We will aspire to create a sense of mystery and suspense through the lead character's psychological conflict, which will come as a results of the flashback scene.
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