127 hours (2010)

  A thrill seeking mountain climber ends up trapped underneath a boulder whilst canyoneering on his own near Moab, Utah, and has to resort to extreme measures in order to survive the ordeal (based on a true story).
  The Director of the film was Danny Boyle.
  The film is not a conventional thriller - it's tension is built up in a different, but still effective way.

  The threat, or 'villain' was not from a human, but rather from nature - the hero is faced against natural dangers such as thirst and dehydration.
  However it retains the characteristics of a thriller with it's resourceful hero.
  The audience are encouraged to empathise with the hero through the establishment of normality at the beginning of the film.
  There was an effective use of both music (such as when his arm first becomes trapped) and silence (used throughout the film to signify the length of time he spends in the canyon).
  The camera would often be seen focusing on small details such as an ant crawling on the protagonist's face, his watch, and even sweat. There are also 'little dramas' which create tension in the viewer, such as when he drops the knife, or when he is forced to drink his own urine.
  The audience would be kept on edge through the mixture of optimism and pessimism, i.e. he succeeds in tasks such as obtaining the knife after he'd dropped it, creating a harness to help hold himself up while asleep (initially created to try and lever himself out). However when the knife proves useless at chiselling away the part of rock holding him down the audience is faced with despair. Mixed feelings also arrive when the audience is presented with past events in the protagonist's life, such as his childhood and his previous lover, and there are even premonitions to give hope of what could come if he survives the ordeal.

  There is also an effective use of close up - particularly when he comes to realise that he must sever his arm. 
  The trailer particularly misleads the audience - it is not explicitly advertised that majority of the film would be spent filming the protagonist trapped under a rock.