Why Do Thrillers Thrive?

We go to the cinema to watch documents of our lives, things we experience ourselves. These can be ones thqat we would never have the chance of experiencing personally or frequent occurunces with a difference... a 'Thrill'. People yurn for thrills because the world in which we live in is so that we rarely experience a shock or unexpected event. Therefore we get these kicks artificially, 'through a window' at the cinema. As we sit in our seats feeling secure it allows us as the audience to become the character, usually the protagonist, who is in peril. Cinemas are so popular, not only with thrillers, becuase our armchairs give us a sense of security, which allows us to engage in the film. Without this security we wouldn't be able to become the character and interact with the plot line. You would think this would mean that the audience were seeking truly seeking thrills in their day to day lives, however this is not the case, show in 'the exhibition slideshow,' with use of an unexpected falling pillar. So even when good editing manipulates the mind of the viewer in to thinking there is a danger the link between character and viewer will be so strong they will truly believe they are in peril. Such manipulation techniques would be to show a shot of the protagonist falling into shark infested waters. Showing the character swim frantically to the edge, but get dragged back in. Although you may not see the shark and the character together at the same time the urge to believe what we are seeing is so strong that we truly believe it is happening. I myself no that when a connection between the protagonist and I is so strong I truly believe they are in immediate peril.

So, thrillers thrive because of the demand of the audience. The public demand for thrillers to make them jump, keep them thinking but most of all add some suspense into their lives.