R+P Post 4: Our film's genre, title and plot outline

Our film is a crime thriller and a stalker film inspired stylistically by films such as 'Seven' (1995) and 'P2' (2007). The title of this film is 'Shadow of Your Past'. The plot line of the film contains many elements that are common in thriller genre films.

The initial equilibrium is that the main character is a successful female lawyer, who has a lot of money and is generally living a good life.

The disruption is that she finds a dead rat on her doorstep, coupled with the note 'I'm Back!' she becomes paranoid and wherever she goes she starts seeing glimpses of one of the criminals she once helped put into prison. Eventually her stalker catches up with her and kidnaps her.

The attempts to resolve this disturbance take the form of the lawyer attempting to escape from the room she is kept in. She fails and is stopped by her kidnapper.

The resolution comes when the police arrive and save the lawyer, although the stalker manages to escape.

The new equilibrium at the end of the film is that the lawyer moves house and changes her job and lifestyle in order to try and stop the stalker finding her - although it is left ambiguous what has happened to the stalker.