In the opening to our thriller, the social groups represented are woman, criminals and police officers, through the characters of Anna and the woman at the desk in the police department. Both of these characters are represented atypically but in very different ways.
Woman, stereotypically, are often thought of as being kind, innocent and gentle. Our main character, Anna, heavily subverts this expectation when we find out that she is in fact a killer, with a body count of 27, which is an extremely high amount of crime for anyone.
Also, you would usually expect criminals to be men, due to the fact that the news often covers cases in which the criminals are men. Having our criminal as a woman subverts the expectation of a criminal being a man. A criminal, in most cases, will show at least some type of either regret for the actions or in some cases take pride in them, but Anna subverts this expectation as she shows no emotion of any sort.
The woman at the desk also subverts expectations of women. When one is to hear the words ‘police officer’, the chances of them thinking immediately of a female police officer is highly unlikely. This is because the job is typically seen to require bravery and the occasional need to pursue a hostile suspect, which, stereotypically, are qualities believed to be more in males rather than females. Therefore, representing the police officer as a woman will subvert the stereotypes of women being weaker and more timid than men.
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