ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roman Polanski, Narrative Structure
18 Feb 2016
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Plot begins on the first day of a new democracy after the fall of a dictatorship. As in many post-conflict societies, the first step is to launch a truth commission to investigate human rights abuses if the old regime. Pay careful attention to what happens when the pandora box of the past gets opened. The structure dictates in large parts how we respond to the. For the first half of the film we are given very little information about paulina"s background. We may have noticed her scars when she is washing. We know hat she has some kind of story because of her behavior. Clues are given but not spelled out . The use of a flashback scene showing us paulinas experience of torture could easily have been used and would change completely the way we engage with the drama that is unfolding in front of us.
