In any situation on earth there is always a story, from reporting in war torn countries to going to the shops to buy milk there is always a plot to tell. Narrative theory is the attempt of philosophers to describe how these tales are made and how they influence and shape where media goes.
Inside films the narrative structure is shaped along rules. For example, the equilibrium – disequilibrium – re-equilibrium rule where the plot starts of in calm then at some point something goes wrong that the protagonist has to deal with and by the end of the story everything is calm and pretty again and Valdimir Propp’s rule of the 31 character roles and actions where there are in any story ever written a maximum of 31 different character types, e.g. the baddie, the protagonist’s companion and the false hero.
My narrative defies some of these rules but abides by others. For example in my story it is impossible to figure out who the bad guy is, it could be the protagonist or the psychiatrist. Tom (the main character) has done terrible things to innocent people which would normally make him the evil one but the fact that he wasn’t sane when he committed the crimes makes him seem more like he wasn’t in control. In the same respect the Psychiatrist is in an identical position. He is portrayed as the fatherly figure who is trying to council Tom and to help him realise his flaws but, towards the end he begins to become more and more annoyed and he starts to care less and less about what happens to Tom.
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