ABSTRACT
Films, especially films shot on location, provide a large amount of documentation, from daily life in streets and buildings to 'items so small they would be otherwise imperceptible'. This chapter builds pertains to the discussion on the 'disruption of the everyday'. It essentially charts some of the facets of the value of fiction films within the parameters of this research, and is by no means claiming to be exhaustive. In the process, the chapter attempts here to address some key questions to clarify the position as to the value of fiction films in relation to everyday life. Suspense is of course a particular type of situation, but the chapter postulate that we need to disrupt the everyday, and not necessarily with a bomb, in order to notice it. The value of film is that it contributes to highlighting the everyday by contrasting it with the extraordinary and the dramatic.
