From the opening sequence i automatically picked up on key ways in which the film builds suspense. Firstly before even the talking introduction starts, i hear the wind blowing and i see the footage of broken rundown objects in a desolate outback area. This builds suspense as you dont quite know what is going on. Throughout the opening the sequence the camera keeps cutting to the shot of what looks to be an oxygen canister, this builds suspense as we as the viewer want to know its importance. In the police station the man sneeks up behind the police officer and strangles him, this is what the suspense was leading up too and by this time it has got us hooked because we want to know why he did it, and why the attacker is in that mental, psychotic state. Again suspense is built up with the use of the oxygen canister. The man who murdered the policemen is carrying the oxygen canister whilst walking slowly towards a pedestrians car. The slow walking builds suspense as we want to know what is going to happen to the man in the car he has pulled over whilst pretending to be a policeman.
The film gets us hooked from the beginning when the man gets arrested and put in the cop car. Its gets us hooked because we want to know why he was arrested, so it makes us want to watch on and find out. Shortly after it makes us hooked for another reason when he murders the policeman. This is because we want to find out his reason for killing the policeman. Finally after he kills the second man in a short space of time we are fully hooked and enthralled by the film. This is because we want to know why the"nutter" is beginning an unwarranted, calm (yet brutal) attack and murders on innocent victims.
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