Film still from Firewall

In this still from a film called Firewall, Ford's character is apparently driving under instruction by Paul Bettany's character. From the look on Ford's face he is being taken hostage. Bettany may also be holding a gun.

In the film Ford plays a bank worker who specialises in making impenetrable computer software for security in the bank. His characters family (including his young, typically innocent-yet-streetwise, children) is taken hostage in order to get him to steal millions from the bank.

I think this shot is brilliant for narrative reasons because it portrays bettany's character in a typical thriller style of being icy cool and calm.

although this film perhaps has elements of an action/thriller hybrid, it still follows thriller conventions and i thought it was very exiting.