Film Theory & Analysis referential, explicit, and implicit are three types of content mentioned in this. Referential is “Recounting the plot of a movie, telling what happens, is the simplest way to explain it to someone else” (Jacobs pg. 1). The second content is called explicit; this content has “perhaps some sort of “moral of the story” or socio-political attitude that the filmmaker is expressing directly through the mouths and actions of the characters” (Jacobs pg. 1-2). The third content mentions in this article is called implicit. This content “may be less obvious but can still be inferred by seeing how the characters change, grow, and develop throughout the course of the film” (Jacobs pg. 2).