Runaway Train

I think one of the most important aspects of why Runaway Train was such a trilling movie was because of the music in the background. The music in a movie always plays a great role in making the film successful and conveying the mood the director wants the viewers to feel, but this was especially true in Runaway Train .  Whenever the scene came on where the camera just focused on the train , I felt my heart racing, not because of anything I was seeing but because the music combined with the image created such a feeling of fear that my mind naturally reacted to feeling fear for the lives of the characters. Another aspect of the film that I found especially successful was that no character was bad or good. Everyone of them had aspects of good and bad within them. With that we saw Manny and Sara - two completely diverse characters but yet neither one of them was one sided. Manny was selfish and cruel yet in the end he saved them and Sara who was good and innocent was in a sense selfish and cruel as well. It created the perfect representation of people , who are never all good or all bad.