WORLD WAR Z (2013, Marc Forster, A+)

WORLD WAR Z (2013, Marc Forster, A+)

 

I felt very excited for the plane scene and the Cardiff scene. I think it is just because I identify myself with a supporting character in both scenes. And this supporting character is expendable. I’m not sure if she will survive or not. This is very different from Brad Pitt’s character and “children characters”, whom I don’t care about at all, partly because I know it is very hard for them to be killed in the middle of the story in this kind of films.

 

In conclusion, if a thriller can make me identify myself with a supporting character who may or may not be killed, that thriller will succeed in thrilling me.

 

This reminds me of my most exciting scene in THE CONSTANT GARDENER (2005, Fernando Meirelles). If I remember it correctly, this film thrills me the most in a scene in which I’m not sure if a female supporting character, maybe the one played by Archie Panjabi, will be killed or not. I know that Rachel Weisz’s character cannot be killed in the middle of the story, but I’m not sure if Archie Panjabi’s character will be killed in the middle of the story or not, so I felt very excited in that scene.