Sub-Genre Conventions Analysis

Our task is to analyse the conventions of two thriller films that are within different thriller sub-genres. I decided to pick the sub-genres 'Psychological' and 'Crime.' 

The film I am going to analyse that is a psychological thriller is Shutter Island. A psychological usually has a form of mental disability, like the main character in Shutter Island, and faces challenges, arguments or deception. Like Teddy (the main character), the mind of psychopaths overrules situations, leads them in the wrong direction, and sometimes results in extreme sickness or death. Every psychological thriller contains mental disable people believing that they are one person, but in reality, have the identity of another. They can often be dangerous so are likely to be deceived by other characters in these films, like the doctors and guards in Shutter Island.    

The second film I am going to analyse is Taken which is a Crime thriller. 
Common themes throughout these thrillers are ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge and kidnapping. Taken conforms to the theme of kidnapping, as two of the main characters are in fact kidnapped (Kim and Amanda).Although a large amount of thrillers contain crime, actual crime thrillers are based entirely around specific crimes, solving these crimes and mysteries, tracking the criminals down, or all three. Taken is based on all three of these: a crime is committed (the kidnapping), the concentration of the film is then based on the solving of the mystery and the difficulty faced when trying to catch the people who kidnap the characters.