Narrative Theory Applied

The Black Hole

  Todorov's Theory:

1. Equilibrium: Everything is normal: A man is working in a office and seems as if he is sleep depraved.
2. Disequilibrium: The stability is disrupted: The printer stops working, the worker kicks the printer and it prints out a black circle on a normal piece of paper.
3. Recognition: Realisation of the disruption: The man realises that this black circle has the power to make things go through it, for example taking a snack from the vending machine.
4. Restoring order: action against the disruption: The worker goes into the room with the safe using the piece of paper with the black hole, then puts the black hole on the safe and starts taking money out of it, till his whole body is inside.
5. New equilibrium: restoration of an equilibrium: The man gets stuck in the safe , which shows that his greediness got the best of him and that there is no restored equilibrium but a new one.
   
   
   
   
   Barthes Theory:
   
   
   1.Establishment of the plot or theme: The film starts by showing a man who is working in a office and seems as if he is sleep depraved. This shows that the film will be based around this character.
   2. Development of the problem, an enigma, an increase in tension: The printer stops working, the worker kicks the printer and it prints out a black circle on a normal piece of paper. The man realises that this black circle has the power to make things go through it, for example taking a snack from the vending machine. The worker goes into the room with the safe using the piece of paper with the black hole, then puts the black hole on the safe and starts taking money out of it, till his whole body is inside. This starts to build the tension of the film.
   3. Resolution of the plot: The man gets stuck in the safe , which shows that his greediness got the best of him. This is where there is the resolution.
   
   
   
   
   Kate Domaille's Theory:
   
   
    We could say that one of Kate Domaille's narrative types relates to this character: Achilles.
   
   
   Achilles: The fatal flaw that will eventually lead to the destruction of the character. We could say that this relates to the the character in the way that his greed got the better of him which led to him getting stuck in the safe.