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Narrative Devices - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Not character driven - visually focused on film poetics
      - No clear causality - harder to identify with characters
      - Eva's perspective - Kevin's character not fully developed
      - Non-linear narrative/flashbacks - fragmented memories
      - Experimental film conventions?
    - - Character driven - dialogue - clear causality and motives
      - Linear narrative - easy to identify
- - - - Eva's pregnancy subverts traditional representations of women
        
        Low angles
      - vs. Franklin's bond to Kevin made his death more shocking
      - Hospital scene
        
        Harsh, clinical, bright, uncomfortable lighting
        
        Eva empty and emotionless, Franklin off-centre. Loss of identity. Unconventional of father
  - - - Cynthia's house cramped, cluttered, closed frames, dark lighting/colours
      - Monica's open, light, spacious house
    - - Hortense formal and colloquial
      - Performance - Cynthia body language - anxious, shaking cup, insecure, looking away
      - Alignment to Hortense
      - Absence of score - not being manipulated to feel a certain way/ social realist genre
- - - - Non-linear - no clear causality
      - Disruption - Eva's pregnancy, Kevin as a child - sound que
    - - Linear narrative - clear causality
      - Equilibrium - funeral - exposition
      - Disruption - Hortense and Cynthia meet
      - Reparation - BBQ scene
      - New equilibrium - end scene
- - - - Flashbacks show Eva's trauma
    - - We don't find out why he did it
        
        Experimental genre convention?
  - - - closed resolution