One of the favorite genres of moviegoers, those "gourmets" who love complicated stories, is a thriller. The word thrill, which translates from English as "awe", speaks for itself.
Trendsetter
Sitting down comfortably in front of a blue screen or gathering for a movie show, the person choosing this genre is looking forward to a pleasant excitement. Especially if he comes across thrillers with an unpredictable denouement, of which there are a great many. The famous Hindu Manoj Nellattu Shyamalan was a kind of “trendsetter”, filming in 1999 his “Sixth Sense”, a story about a psychologist (Bruce Willis) and a boy who sees the dead (Haley Joel Osment). From this picture began the countdown of films about ghosts who do not know that they have died. These include “The Others” by Alejandro Amenabar with Nicole Kidman or the later “Dream House”, which starred the duet Daniel Craig - Rachel Weiss. These are truly thrillers with an unpredictable denouement, where by the end, for some reason, white is already turning black and black is rapidly turning white. And Shyamalan did not stop there, he still likes to surprise. For example, even if his film “The Mysterious Forest”, though not very masterpiece, is also closer to the credits, it surprises everyone who watches it.
DiCaprio and others
Another talented director, Christopher Nolan, loves to bother the viewer so much that one can only wonder how the director himself does not get confused by the last shots in the elaborately woven web of film narratives. A vivid example is Remember, a film in which the main character (performed by Guy Pearce) was sick with a very rare form of amnesia. Nolan continued to shoot thrillers with an unpredictable denouement and issued another masterpiece - “The Beginning” with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. DiCaprio himself has added a lot in recent years in terms of acting. He completely departed from those images and debut roles in which the directors exploited only his external qualities, and showed himself in another, no less interesting work. It was an adaptation of the best-selling novelist American writer Dennis Lehane's “Island of the Damned,” which was released a year earlier than The Beginning. Martin Scorsese’s work can easily be classified as the “best thriller with unpredictable denouement”, because the ending debunkes all the public’s guesses and even shockes. Worth mentioning is the excellent acting ensemble of DiCaprio - Jack Nicholson - Matt Damon (and Mark Wahlberg, who joined them ), which took shape in another Scorsese film, which won 4 Oscars, “The Departed” 2006. Both the Hong Kong Double Castling and its US remake of The Departed are thrillers with unpredictable denouement.
Upside down
British director Danny Boyle, whose Slumdog Millionaire took the lead Oscar of 2008, loves experimenting. He shoots an extraordinary story about drug addicts (“On the Needle”), then shows the tragedy of a person who is on the verge of life and death (“127 hours”), then unfolds a picture of the global epidemic (“28 hours”). All (or almost all) of his creations are thrillers with an unpredictable denouement. 2013 gave us the next controversial film of the master - "Trans". Starting as an ordinary detective story about a robbery of a London auction, continuing as a psychological drama of a protagonist who has lost his memory, ends with Trans literally turning the plot upside down. Simon, brilliantly touching in his attempts to save himself (James McEvoy), Frank, an ambiguous villain (Vincent Cassel), and Elizabeth, attractive and wise (Rosario Dawson), brilliantly led their parties in the thriller . See for yourself by watching Trans!