The Recruit- Analysing Crime & Convention

The conventions that make up a crime thriller, the film are usually confusing and have two main characters, one being the more official and well behaved role, sometimes the detective; in this case, the recruiter. Then the other is usually played by a less serious role. There is always a lot of twists and turns to confuse the viewer.
The charter James is introduced as someone who has lots of potential to succeed in life but doesn't entirely realise it at the start. His character starts of as normal as a bar worker and a part time inventor. The invention that he creates then leads to the next step in his life when he realises he is CIA material once he has been recruited by Walter Burke who is a very shifty man himself although it is technically part of his job. What is clear about James even in the early minuets is that he has a big chip on his shoulder about what really happened in his dad in his life and he knows that Walter knows the truth.

The film effects and filming techniques  are a key part in making the film as good as it is. The lighting in the film was alway very dark, which gives a serious and exciting effect; for example, when the recruits were giving the task over breeching a building with out being caught, the lighting made this scene feeling more like it as an actual break in. The types of close ups also have an effect on how good this film is. For example when recruiting, there was a close up of Walters face and this showed us as the audience how serious he was about recruiting james.