'Vantage Point' A Political Thriller

We are looking at Thrillers with sub-genres. We watched the opening clip from Vantage point, a political thriller. It makes clear in the opening scene that the American government, with a great deal of support are again the terrorist attacks following the events of 911. Typical of the genre, we see two teams of people, those in the offices and those in the action of it all. In this example, they have portrayed this using the news team, and the crew. We have the head in the control office, ordering her camera men around the arrival of the president to portray the storyline to the audience. it also gives a message about the media and censorship, as the news presenter and co workers try to do a clip upon recent assismnations and terror attacks at events like this, however the head woman goes against this as it is 'not their story'. We are given clues to wahst going to happen as in the oppening clip of the movie we can hear news presenters all hyping about this event, giving us a clue that we are going to see through the eyes of the news, this terror attack unfold. Rather than shots being worked for us, we are talked through them by the overiding head and what they acheive. However this clip gives us a message for the rest of the film. Perhaps that talking about terror is not the way to go about it, as they continue to retaliate, assisnating the president of the United DStates of America and a serious of explosion taking place that kill the TV news presenter, who had only just try to warn people about events like this. The filkm is clearly set about a war on terror and the approach taken to this, based on the events we witness in the opening clip of the film. Agin, it typically fits whats expected on a political thriller as there is the good force, fighting against terror, but the terrorists fighting back. The use of the media in the scene creates an affective appearance to the movie, as its fast paced, gives us a good view of the political events, and carries a lot of message to the viewers of the movie.