Murder Weapon

For our Thriller opening, we were inspired by the murder weapon used in Heavenly Creatures. This inter-textual reference has connotations of psychotic tendencies as the two girls in the film were obsessive which resulted in the murder of one of the girls mother. 

Our murderer is a female and we have challenged generic conventions, much like Peter Jackson, in doing so. The use of this weapon is then feminine in that a stocking is used which is a common female item. This then tells the audience that the murderer is a woman without revealing too much of her identity. 

Our cliffhanger is that we don't know if the homeless man is alive or not and we also don't know the motive for the murder but it is suggested that it is a hate crime. The choice of weapon could suggests similarities between the murderer and the two girls in 'Heavenly Creatures', for example they murdered Pauline's mother as they felt she was trying to seperate her and Juliet and therefore had a psychotic hate for her mother. Our murderer may be prejudice towards homeless man which is implied in the shot of her crossing out pictures of her victims.