Todorov's theory on narrative structure applied to my groups opening sequence:
Equilibrium - The pace at the beginning is very slow and does not contain any action codes that would suggest that something weird was going on. The girl walks doen the road and into her house as you would expect someone to.
The Disruption - This is when the door is left open due to the girl being distracted by dropping her keys. A person is seen going into the house behind her and this equilibrium is broken.
The new equilibrium would be found later on in the film once this disruption is solved and a new normality occurs.
Theory of binary opposites by Claude Levi Strauss applied to Retribution.
Freedom // Entrapment
Male // Female
Victim // Heroine
Roland Barthes theory of Enigma codes applied to Retribution
- The camera is following the girl possibly suggesting that she is being watched. it is enigmatic because it makes you wonder who the person watching her is.
- The time phase cut to when the girl is woken by her phone is enigmatic as it raises questions of what he has been doing all that time.
- When he walks into the bathroom behind the girl, he does not seem to do anything which suggests that he might not even be a bad person as the camera work may be trying to imply.
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