Suspense And Tension In The Film Imperium

Imperium(2016) was written and directed by Daniel Ragussis. It was distributed by Lionsgate and was released August 19, 2016. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Nate Foster, Toni Collette as Angela Zamparo, Tracy Letts Dallas Wolf, Nestor Carbonell Tom Herandez, and Sam Trammell as Gerry Conway. The film follows Nate Foster an FBI agent who works to uncover various terrorist organization desperately trying to make a difference in the world. After an extremely dangerous substance is stolen Angela Zamparo asks Nate Foster to go under cover and invest age various what supremacist groups. Initially Nate enters a small white supremacist group and very quickly works his way up to work with various key players in the movement. When Nate and Angela

Imperium falls into the thriller genre and the sub genres being both political and conspiracy thrillers. Thrillers are generally categorized by generating suspense and tension by putting its protagonist in often dangerous, and exhilarating situations. Thrillers also put the main characters in an endless tangled web of interpersonal relations and often that characters struggle with their own emotions. The protagonist often struggles with dealing with their conscious and subconscious mind as well. Throughout this film with see Nate often struggle with coping with the situation he is in, he struggles to relate

We see these ideas amplified in almost all of the characters who identify themselves as white supremacist regardless of their faction. Nate fits into all of this because throughout his whole undercover operation he is paranoid that the different white supremacists he interacts with are going to figure out who he is. When Nate whole undercover journey starts himself and Angela think that Dallas Wolf is the man with the plan, the figure head of the movement, but as soon as Nate really presses Dallas for information himself and Angela realize that Dallas is literally just a radio host, and that the white supremacist movement around D.C is much bigger and more dangerous then they anticipated. Through out the film we not only see the paranoia from the supremacist, but also from Nate. The film makers also toward the end of the film show the how big the supremacist movement truly is. Therefore the general amount of paranoia and both Nate and Angela stumbling upon a movement much bigger then they through plays into the genre subset of conspiracy