Thriller Generic Conventions - Safe House

                                                                       Safe House

Safe House is an action thriller film, produced by Daniel Espinosa. It is about a young CIA agent, Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a Safe House. But when the Safe House is attacked, he finds himself on the with his charge.
The protagonist Matt Weston was called up to look after the CIA safe house in Cape Town. He endangers his life to protect his prisoner (Tobin Frost) from gang abduction. In the process of protecting Frost, the job begins to affect him psychologically as Frost plays all sorts of mind games with him.
The antagonist, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is an ex-CIA agent turned international criminal. Frost is forced to surrender himself to the American consulate in Cape Town, South Africa. He acquired a micro drive from top secret files from a rogue MI6 agent; a mysterious group led by Vargas men find Frost which leads him to turn himself in to the American consulate in CAPE Town, South Africa to prevent capture by the bad gang.
The title ‘Safe House’ relates to the protagonists weakness as he takes Frost to another safe house occupied by another housekeeper. This shows that Weston depends on hiding out in different safe houses instead of laying low in an unknown location (where CIA agents would not think of searching for them). It creates an illusion of weakness and isolation portraying the vulnerability of the characters and their perilous circumstances.

We see Frost in the bathroom and then someone comes in to shoot Frost and he beats up the man. This is an example of an ordinary situation in which extraordinary things happen.
Micro elements combine in a build up of suspense through the use of camerawork, sound, mise-en-scene, and editing. The use of camera techniques in the film helps to build up the suspense in several ways. For example, the camera draws into important elements of the film. Sound plays a key role in the thriller because there are a variety of diaegetic and non-diaegetic sounds to emphasis what is happening in each scene. The location, lighting, costumes and props also contribute to the anticipation of the film. When it comes to editing, cross cutting is used to show the audiences different scene one at a time to emphasis the tension.