My film, Obsession, is a psychological slasher horror film.
The basic storyline of the film is that there is a college student who stalks
female students about the college, and thinks that he loves them, each time
that he asks one of them to go on a date with him/tells them that he loves them
they think it’s either a joke and they turn him down, and he takes his revenge
by killing them.
The narrative structure of this film (following Todorov’s
theory) is, at the beginning everything is calm, the villain hasn’t attacked
anyone, and all the girls are unaware of him. A disruption occurs when the
girls cannot find their friend as she has disappeared. The disruption has been
noticed when the villain is found out. The disruption is attempted to be
repaired when the final girl and one friend try to calm down the villain
(however, her friend is killed by the villain in this process). In the final
scene, she is saved by her boyfriend who kills the villain; which leads to the
new equilibrium at the end.
This film also follows Barthes’ Binary opposition theory,
the villain doesn’t have any good aspects and the hero and final girl don’t
have any evil aspects. The good in this film is the final girl and her
boyfriend, this is because they are average college students who don’t break
any rules etc. The evil in this film is the villain, Brad, as he hurts people
who reject him.
The film also follows Propps character types theory:
The villain - Brad, he struggles against the hero and harms
those who reject him.
The donor - The final girl’s friend. She helps the final
girl to realise who the villain is.
The princess - This is the final girl, as the hero kills the
villain to keep her alive and stay with her.
Her father - this character isn’t shown within the film,
although the final girl’s friend can be applied to this role
The dispatcher - this is the girl who dies at the beginning,
as she starts the realisation between the final girl and the other friend
The false hero - this is the final girl as she tries to
defeat the villain but isn’t able to do so
The hero - the final girl’s boyfriend, as he saves the final
girl and defeats the villain
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