Todorov believed that all stories tend to follow a particular narrative pattern.
The Equilibrium - The opening introduction to the main character and establishing the plot.
Recognition of Disruption - The character finds a way to deal with the disruption.
Attempt to repair disruption - The character deals with the disruption.
Reinstatement of Equilibrium - The finale of the plot sets in, and everything's turned back to normal.
A Dangerous Game
The whole film would be about a man who suddenly wakes up from blacking out, covered in foreign blood and holding a bloody knife. He has no recollection of the events previous to this encounter, but his stand paranoid state makes him panic and try to cover the evidence and run away. He tries to recollect what happened, whilst at the same time slowly losing his sanity. He gets chased by unknown people, not knowing who they're from and why they're chasing him. The film takes a lot of time to show him running, and show how his mental state slowly deteriorates. We slowly learn more about his past life, and what he done previously, and find out that he was actually a good, faithful man who does loads of charity work.
Halfway through he meets a man who has similar features to himself, and at the end, two scenes would play out, one showing him being shot from the man, and another showing him shooting himself, revealing that it was himself all along.
Equilibration: The main character is revealed as a killer at the beginning.
Disruption: He runs away from the mystery people, trying to find out what happened at the same time.
Recognition of Disruption: The character slowly goes insane from the whole situation, trying to recollect his memories, run away and trying to find his family, which he can't find throughout the whole film.
Attempt to repair disruption: The main character tries to keep himself sane by reassuringly telling himself he's alright, and that it wasn't his fault. He tries to kill the people coming after him, in increasingly violent way.
Reinstatement of equilibrium: The character gets killed by the person coming after him, before we then realise that it was his own mind all along.
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