Narrative

Narrative positioning - who we're placed behind through the cinematography and who we side with. Allows us to talk about spectatorship - bridges narrative and spectatorship
Sid Field's Narrative Structure - 3 acts - sets up problems and establishes character, confrontation and revealing problem, resolution - everything is solved
Todorov's - Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, Recognition of disequilibrium, Solving disequilibrium, new equilibrium
Binary Oppositions - Claude Levi-Strauss
Narrative themes
Linearity - flashbacks don't make us non-linear because it's internal non-diegetic - in the character's head not the spectators. Ie Trainspotting is non-linear because it's shows nihilism and the cycle of addiction, creating an enigma that draws in the audience, same with Pans Labyrinth. Trainspotting is omniscient because we know more than just the main protagonist, but stops being omniscient when he moves to London - ie when he stops doing drugs. Could show shared drugs experience or their reliance on each other.