Binary opposites

Binary Opposites is oftern used in film noir (eg black and white, good and evil) it helps create drama and intest in the film. The types of binary opposites most commanly used in Thrillers are. ; Black and white (colour contrast), good and evil, male and female, life and death, turth and lies, justice and crouption, crime and punishment, light and dark, power and powerless.

Binary opposites in Thriller films I have watched.
The Thrid man

• religion (churches) and crime (dead body in water and items being sold that might not be legal)
• War (buildings blown up shown in the quick shots in the begining of the opening) and Peace (Main characters friend had died and he visits his grave. Graveyards-we think of death as finally resting in peace .)

Sin City

• Black and white (with only a few things in colour)
• Female and male. (female = femme fatal)

I have used binary opposites in my thriller opening by staring the opening in what seems to be a good and perfect life living in a clean comfortable home, but then leading to the man living a a dirty run down home. We hope that this will make the audience see the contrasts in his life and make that it will make a bigger impression and it will hopefully be something that the audience would remember when they go away. I hope that the contract between clean and dirty would leave the audience with the impression that life can change fast if you make the wrong decision.