The setting is a house in Harlem, New York some time in the year 2000. The action takes place mostly in a room in the house.
After a divorce with her husband Meg and her daughter Sara move to Harlem, New York looking for a new start in life. The first night after moving into their new three story house, burglars broke in to steal the money which the previous owner has left in a room with a steel bolted door called the Panic Room. After noticing the intruders presence, Meg wakes Sara up and took her into the Panic Room, and locked the door. Being in the room without any knowledge of what the burglars want. Meg uses a microphone in the room to negotiate with the burglars. After their response that what they want is inside the Panic Room, Meg is scared that they are there kill them rather than their claimed purpose. Meg won't let them in. Struggling to survive ,Meg had to anticipate the next move as well as keeping her daughter from dying due to a medical condition. The burglars try to scare them, smoking them out with gas through an air vent and threaten to kill her husband when he come to the!.
ir rescue (who she managed to get a hold of through a cell phone). At the end Meg had to get medication for her daughter outside the Panic Room. When she run out of the room, Meg is caught by one of the burglar. After fighting him off, Meg got back to the Panic Room to see her daughter being taken hostage by one of the burglars. She got a hold of the burglar's gun and shoots one of the burglar. At the end, the burglars are arrested and Meg decides that they doesn't need to live in a big house after all.
Meg have two opposite characteristics. She is a submissive person by letting others push her around. For example, when a woman seduces her husband, she let him go instead of trying to save the relationship. One time at a mall with Sara, a saleswoman tries to sell her a blouse with a stain on it.
Panic Attack It all started in eighth grade. ... I crept into my parents room to find both of them fast asleep. I slowly walked out of my parents room and back to mine where I paced back and forth, back and forth, trying to calm down. ... Slowly at first, and then faster and faster, until my entire room was a blur. ... He told me that the "episodes" I was having at night were panic attacks. ...
Essay: The Red Room Question: How does H.G.Wells convey the experience of fear in the red room? The Red Room is a gothic horror story written by H.G.Wells. In the story he described how the red room is haunted but a young man doesn't believe it, in the end narrator discover that the red room is truly haunted. ... But he begins to panic as he saw the surroundings. "Then, with my hand in the pocket that held my revolver, I advanced" Soon panic became fear as all weird things started to happen "'Steady on' I said. ...
Characters The red room The Characters have an eerie and mysterious manner. ... The narattor of this story is a person who wants to confront whatever lies within the red room, in an effort to uncover all the superstition that surrounds the room. ... When he goes into the red room the suspense rises a little, when he checks the room thoroughly and checks the locks on the door. ... When the candles start going out one by one the fear and panic kicks in, as well as little suspense. His fear is very strong and he panics an awful lot trying to relight the candles in desperation. ...
Like many of Hitchcock films "Panic Room" is about facing a worse fear. ... A panic room is hidden room in which you can hide in case burglars break in your house. ... This forces Foster and her daughter to lock themselves inside the panic room. ... Panic Room takes place almost entirely in one location. ... One Hitchcock film that "Panic Room" deliberately borrows from is "Rear Window." ...
Wells, Builds and sustains tension In "The Red Room". ... "What is the red room?" ... Is this room dangerous? ... Panic comes as the room plunges into shadows with him racing around trying to keep up with the candles as they go out. ... He personifies fear with the red room. ...
Some of his most arguably popular movies and the ones that I will be going into are Fight Club, Se7en, Panic Room, and the Social Network. ... The movie Panic Room acts like a Hitchcock thriller from beginning to end. ... He now has Se7en (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), Zodiac (2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). ... After listening to Fincher on the DVD commentaries of Fight Club and Se7en and Panic Room I found that he usually tries to push what he can get away with to th...
The room had regulated air-conditioning and a toilet in an adjacent room, and food was brought to them on request. ... The set up was a four-by-nine foot cubicle suspended inside a fifteen-by-ten foot room. The cubicle had a bed, an icebox, and a call button or "panic button". ... Some students would experience brief periods of anxiety which actually progressed to panic in two subjects. ... If the inhibitions overpower the individual, a state of panic may force the person to leave the tank. ...
Films chosen to examine: Seven (1995) Fight Club (1999) Panic Room (2002 Catalogue: 1. ... Panic Room DVD. ... In Panic Room it brings into play a musty, gloomy feeling by using more dark blues and white. ... Much of Panic Room seems to be a tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock. The opening sequence of Panic Room could have come straight out of North by Northwest as the titles are set against the skyscrapers of New York. ...
