How does 'Monster' conforms to the conventions of a thriller film?

How does the film ‘Monster’, conforms the conventions of a typical thriller film?

The narration of the film is used to represent the conventions of a typical thriller film, for instance at the beginning of the film it started off with flash backs of our protagonist’s past and than we see the her sitting in the rain with a gun in her hand (non-linear), this conforms to the conventions of a typical thriller film because it makes the audience questions on what she is doing? This is an example of a enigma code and through this narration, restricted narrative was also created which also create a sense of enigma. However as the story proceeds the structure of the film changes to linear narration, which conforms to the conventions of a thriller film because it creates a sense of normality.

At the beginning of the film, I denoted a close up shot of a gun, this signifies violence and crime which conforms to the conventions of a thriller film because it a gun is a iconography of a thriller film and the use of close up shot signifies the importance of the gun and it fore shadows that it may lead the protagonist to her down fall. This conforms to the conventions of a thriller film because as a audience we are seeing from the main character perspective (restricted narration) and at the same time we are having less knowledge than our main character creates a sense of mystery. However, we could argue that this subverts the conventions of a typical thriller film because as the story progress we reveal that she our protagonist is actually a criminal, which means that we are seeing from a criminal perspective, which subverts the conventions because there are less sense of investigations.

The mis en scene was used to represent the conventions of the thriller genre, for example in the same scene I denote the protagonist in the rain, this signifies that the protagonist is vulnerable and most importantly she is all alone, which conforms to the conventions of a thriller film because a female is always stereo-typed as being weak and is always represented as a victim, which conforms to the conventions of a typical thriller film because it makes the audiences feel tension and suspense because it is dangerous for a girl to be alone.

Mis en scene was used to represent the conventions of a typical thriller film, for example the first scene was set in a pub at night, this signifies that there maybe some shady business going on in this scene (hints to the audiences that it maybe a crime thriller) and that it reflects on the dangers of night life, this conforms to the conventions of a thriller film because in a typical thriller film the mise en scene creates a sense of normality because it is located in a urban area and the fact that low key lighting are used it creates tension.

Mis en scene was used to represent the conventions of typical thriller film, for example when the protagonist drove off with her clients in a forest, this conforms to the conventions of a typical thriller film because the remote area signifies the danger and that there is no way of escape, especially when a girl is weak against a men (stereo-type), this creates tension, which is a convention of thriller film. When the client was violent against the protagonist it created a sense of action and through the violence it also created tension and suspense. However, when the protagonist shot and killed the client this created a red herring because it has mislead the audience that the protagonist was going to die. Most importantly when she shot the client there was a long shot and the car door was covering the victims body, which created theatre of the mind, which is a conventions of a thriller film.