Johnny Berchtold as Randy and Kyle Gallner as Benson in The Passenger
Carter Smith’s 2023 film, The Passenger, manages to create a pressure cooker of tension that explodes within the first 20 minutes of the film. The Passenger follows the anxious Randy after his coworker, Benson , kidnaps him. Fleeing the law, Benson attempts to therapize Randy, dragging him around town and forcing him to relive and confront painful memories.The Passenger is a character study of Randy wrapped in the disguise of a thriller.
Kyle Gallner Uses a Shot Gun and Gore to Burst the Suspense in ‘The Passenger’ Close After an unrelenting build-up of tension, The Passenger pulls a bait and switch in which a character bursts the pressure. Considering the camera has, up until this point, exclusively followed Randy, one might expect Randy to be the vehicle through which the first tonal shift occurs.
The aesthetics of Benson’s rampage emphasize the carnage. The shooting occurs inside the restaurant, where everything is an obnoxious shade of yellow or orange. The characters are all dressed in similarly colored bowling shirts as uniforms. The blood splatter is lurid and messy. While the color palate of the restaurant should have hidden the blood, the mix used in The Passenger is so pigmented and has an almost chunky look to it that the blood pops on the screen.
How ‘The Passenger’ Uses This Opener to Impact the Rest of The Movie Arguably, without the first 20 minutes of The Passenger, one could make the case for the film being just a thriller. The major plot points from here on out are devoted to the film’s primary focus; a character study of Randy. While the rest of the film is peppered with moments of occasional gore, it never reaches the heights achieved in the opener.
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