Source Code Thriller Analysis

Source Code is a action thriller (2011), which features a soldier called Colter Stevens who wakes up inside a train in another man's body. He is very confused and stands up and walks about the train, then an explosion goes off inside the train and he dies. He then wakes up inside a machine. This machine is run by a company that is able to go back into the past to change certain events, such as terrorist attacks. Colter Stevens is to live another man's life on this train and has 8 minutes to locate a bomb hidden on the train to save the members of the train to prevent a terrorist attack.

Source code is a different type of thriller films to other films that we have studied. The director and written have created an interesting concept to base the film upon. The filming of the film is very basic. Because most of the scenes are confined onto the train the camera angle are very much repeated. Also because Colter Stevens is re-living the same scenario multiple times, the director decided to use the same camera angles in every scene to keep the continuity of the film. This is needed for a film like this because on screen the same scene is being replay multiple times, so the camera angles of replayed scenes need to stay the same.