How is Suspense Created In The Film United93

The film United93 is based on terrorist attacks that occured in America on september the 11th, 2001. Terrorists hijacked serveral planes, two of them hitting the World Trade Centre and one of them hitting the pentagon. One of the planes, United Flight Airlines93, did not succed to reached its target which was the white house, as the passengers on board managed to takeover the hijackers using force and crash into a feild in Shanksville Pennysylvaina.

The film achieves to create suspense really well in the film. However some other thrillers tend to take longer time to get the message of suspense across to the veiwers until the middle near end of the film not making it really effective.

Furthermore in United93 suspense is shown throughout the film getting the whole audience so intrigued and foucsed on whats going on also make the viewers anticipate on what is going to happen, making it very tense and unease for some viewers which makes it a good film.

Many features of the film contribute to this, for example when a air traffic control worker tries to contact the first plane to be hijacked, American 77 but dont scucced also with the hijackers of United93 looking quite mishevious and suspicious as they board the flight.

This lets the auidence no that something is not right and that something bad is going to happen on the plane, you can tell because the guy is really fidgety and sweats allot, making the audience pay closer attention to what is happening in the film at this point they ar focused on what they are watching.

There is also a good amount of non-diegetic sound, most prominate in the scene where the hijackers take over the plane, the music that is played over the scene changes the audiences emotion, as well as letting them no that the climax of the film is comming soon.

One important way the film is seen to create continuous suspense in a subliminal way is by the continuity use of sound. During the whole film there is alot of base sounds and drones which represent the upcoming disaster and terror that is awaiting them, and also the anxiety of the viewers. For example when the passengers are preparing to try and takeover the hijackers the tempo and the volume of the base and drones now increase which creates fear for the audience.