Narrative

Narrative is telling a story and the way the story is organised. Elements of narrative are time,closure and enigma's which is the mystery behind everything. Classical Hollywood narratives are that it could be linear which means it follows a story,few if any subplots and tendency towards closure. One theory of narrative is Tzvetan Todorov's theory, this theory means that films include an equilibrium, disruption, resolution and a new equilibrium which means the characters have learnt something and changed. A good example of this is the film called the outlaw Josey Wales which starts off with a father bonding with his son by working together on a horse and then his son gets called in for lunch and after that you see horses panicking and running all over the place and then we see a fire has broke out and many enigma's are created such as why the people have done it, who are they and where did they come from. but throughout the film Josey Wales gets his revenge so the problem is solved because he made them pay for killing his son and kidnapping his wife.