Narrative

Both films in the sense of point A and B can be considered a narrative. Both movies have a sense of time that we can tell. Not all films have that. For instance, right now I'm at work on this Thursday night back at home. I had to drive from school In order to get back home and work at the store I am working at now. I will then go home to go to sleep and return here Friday afternoon. If we were to make a narrative of this we would surely show myself at school, my drive here, and to the point where I'm so bored at work that I'm doing my homework. If we didn't want a narrative all the shots would be scrambled to show more of a portrait of me. Duck Soup was obviously a narrative due to its storyline, but The Way Things Go could be argued more. We can see that the chain reaction surely has a beginning and an end and has a uniform sense of time that we can define. The defining sense of time is what makes a narrative a narrative in my opinion. Time can be manipulated all it wants, but as long as we know at the end of the film when it all took place, it is a narrative.

Duck Soup seemed to be about a man in power who you would normally see in power. I saw more of the narrative than anything in terms of technical parts of filmmaking. The Way Things Go seemed to be more about a tracking camera than anything because it seemed like the chain would never end. This is what I got out of Frampton's idea of what a film is about.