Superior Position

Superior position is when the audience knows a conflict that the character on the screen doesn't. In the film, This Mean War, Reese Witherspoon is dating two guys and they don't know they are each other until the middle of he film. Then Witherspoon doesn't know that they two guys are best friends. In real life, it can be gossip of somebody having an affair in the relationship that he/she know about and the person getting cheated on in the relationship doesn't know. A movie can easily be made of this conflict involving conflict and drama.