Kamikaze Girls was the first film that actually had some disparity in your evaluations, which is great.  Not every film is a film you will like.  How about the subcultures presented?  Now on to narrative. Narrative cinema begins with the written word actualities (no narrative form) to documentary and “story” films narrative structure = story +plot plot – sequencing of events story – larger set of events (true chronological sequencing) linear plot – chronological classical narrative structures – viewer is aware of shaping of storyline, move towards resolution

use of flashbacks

formalistic narrative – author is overly manipulative to maximize thematic idea mixed up plot sequences – Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run narrator & narrative point of view films have multiple authors – real vs. implied narrative POV

1st person – voice over, POV shots 3rd person – either we know everything or some things are kept hidden

is typically a multiplexity of views rather than just a single viewpoint alternatives ambiguity of causality (open ended) anti-narrative (going against any form of narrative sense) counter cinema & Godard Vent D’est

narrative transitivity vs. narrative intransitivity (one thing follows another vs. gaps & interruptions, episodic construction, undigested digression) identification vs. estrangement (empathy, emotional involvement with a character vs. direct address, multiple & divided characters, commentary) transparency vs. foregrounding (”Language wants to be overlooked” Siertsema vs. making mechanics of film/text visible & explicit) single diegesis vs. multiple diegesis (unitary homogeneous world vs. heterogeneous worlds – rupture between different codes & different channels) closure vs. aperture (self contained object, harmonized within its own bounds vs. open-endedness, overspill, intertextuality – allusion, quotation, & parody) pleasure vs. unpleasure (entertainment, aiming to satisfy the spectator vs. provocation, aiming to dissatisfy & hence change spectator) fiction vs. reality (actors wearing make-up, acting a story vs. real life, the breakdown of representation, truth)