Shallow Garve 1994

Today me and my boyfriend watched Shallow Grave. Shallow Grave is a thriller but includes many sub - genres like, Crime, action and comedy. The film has very dark comical undertones to it however, is a serious film. Shallow Grave is a story of how three individuals, Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGreggor, are on a quest to find a room mate for their four bedroom flat. They conduct interviews in order to choose their room mate, however the interviews are very unorthadox and funny. When the three original flat mates do find a person to occupy their spare bedroom, he locks his room and never comes. Once the three individuals find that the man in the extra room has died in his sleep the three find a breifcase full of money. The story entails and explores a moral dilemma on what to do in a situation when your room mate dies and you find a lot of money that does not belong to you. The caption for the film, 'What is a little murder among friends' is extremely good and effective as the film contains a lot of twists and dark and chilling scenes as the friends 'battle' it out for the money. You don't know which of the friends is more sinister than the next or how the end of the film will turn out. This thriller is brilliant at keeping you on the edge of your seat as you want to find out what happens in the end, Who gets the money? How will it end? Will they do the right thing and give it in? Shallow Grave is good at captivating the veiwers attention and creates a lot of suspense and tension throughout the use of music within the scenes. Theres is a lot of contrapuntal sound used as well as parallel which makes the music and the picture behind it very effective.