'Sabotage', directed by Alfred Hitchcock is a classic example of suspence. An secret agent from a foreign country owns a cinema and lives with his wife and her younger brother. The agent plants a bomb in a can of film and uses the boy to transport the bomb to the other side of London to blow up another cinema.
Suspense is created because the audience know what time the bomb is going to go off at, we fret for the young boys safety as the viewer wonders if the bomb will go off when the boy is holding it and therefore killing him. Hitchcock has cleverly made the audience empathsize and care for the young boy as his childish nature is revealed, for example his marvel at the parade, and we are literally on the edge of our seats as we see the time for detonation growing nearer.
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