Just finished watching the thriller "Panic Room", directed by David Fincher, written by David Koepp and starring Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker and Kristen Stewart. The film tells the story of Meg Altman (Foster) recently divorced from her husband and her daughter Sarah (Stewart) hiding out in the panic room of their four-storey brownstone townhouse after an invasion by three armed robbers, but what they desire is in that very room.
The opening sequence begins with a shot of Meg and Sarah walking through the streets Manhattan to view the Townstone property, we then see them as they are taken on a tour of the house where we learn a few important details about the previous disabled owner, his children and his estate.
As they continue on the tour they are taken to the Master Suite where the majority of the film is based; Meg notices that the room is smaller than it should be prompting the estate agent to show her the panic room, he then proceeds to tell her that should there be a break-in during the night they would be fully protected as the panic room contains a buried phone line, a security system, health and first aid kits and most importantly it is surrounded by concrete and a four-inch-thick steel door.
From this extract again we can see some conventions of thrillers, such as mystery from the previous owner and his family.
I enjoyed this film also, I thought that it was better then "The Long Good Friday".
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