Narrative

Here I am trying to apply 3 of Barthes' narrative codes to a film opening.

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In this you can see that the key characters are Carl and Ellie. I think that Ellie is represented as down to earth.A women who also wants to explore and have fun.where as Karl at the beginning is presented as hard working and wants to relax and not go out as much. In this, time is passed on, by showing ties being put on Carl, in different times and days meaning that when they show Carl and Ellie again when they are old. Some of the key themes are young and old, life and death, and opposites because when Carl and Ellie have opposite personality's and ideas.

Enigma code:

-what will Carl do know Ellie is gone?
-will he still be the same? personality wise?
-will he still carry on the dream?

action code:

-going on a picnic
-doing up there house
-working together? Is that how they met?

symbolic code:

-the hands on the letter box
-their home represents them
-cleaning either side of the same window
-having a dream

Aristotle

In the beginning you can see that they are a happy couple and that Ellie likes to go out and be adventurous but Carl seems like he cant keep up with her.

In the middle you can see that they get bad news because they lost there baby and Carl makes up another dream for them( to live on paradise falls) and they save up but they keep having to use the money.

In the end, you can see that Ellie is finding it hard to keep up with Carl, and that time is passing on to fast.