Genre Research: Message From the King


Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be talking about the movie "Message From the King" released in 2016. From the beginning the movie starts with a dark room and a man being interviewed on why he is entering the country. The dark room and close-up of his face alone sets the tone for the movie and it brings a sense of mystery. From the beginning not much is told about the main character or where he's from and what he does. He seems eager to find his sister and after discovering news he starts to search around the city asking people she's met for any information. He's eventually set to the morgue and found out that his sister has been killed and tortured. From this point the movie starts to get darker and more mysterious. There is a fight scene that follows this moment not long after and that's when it gets more interesting and starts giving the sensation of a thriller. This fight scene added to the mystery of this character and contributed to the thriller aspect of the movie. In the end he finds his sisters killers and comes to learn disturbing news about his sisters past. Overall the writers and directors did a good job on giving the movie a thriller sensation but, they focused too much on giving the audience something to look at that the story got lost throughout. Many things that attributed to following thriller conventions was keeping things in mystery 'til the very end. As for technological ways, they used lowkey lighting through out the movie setting the tone throughout the whole movie bringing the audience into the mystery. The editing was very fast paced and they used a lot of action match shots, jump cuts, and cross-cuts. They mainly stuck with wide shot, medium shots and most importantly close-ups. They used close-ups a lot to bring emphasis to certain things in the film, which made it hard to stick to one thing going on in certain scenes. While they did the job of getting a thriller feeling they didn't do so good with the storytelling aspect. 

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