What Has Happened To Lulu?

Narrative structure plays an important role in engaging the audience in a film, while at the same time promoting particular ways of thinking about the world. In “Cinema Paradiso”, an Italian movie directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, narrative structure is extremely important in conveying that the change of the world effects community and may lead to sacrifices. Narrative structure also applies to the poem “What has Happened to Lulu?” by Charles Causley to demonstrate the story line behind the short and factual words.

One of the first ways the director of “Cinema Paradiso” Giuseppe Tornatore attempts to use narrative structure to engage the audience is by clearly portraying the most important setting of the story, which is the Cinema. Torantore uses the setting to make us realize that the world has changed. Near the beginning of the movie where the cinema takes place we see footage of people watching the film. The long shot of the people in the
We see a mid shot of only the character Toto and his mom sitting down on the table with Toto’s younger sister sleeping in the background. While Toto was playing by himself with cut out films to make up stories, his mother is working hard for her family sewing on the table in order to make money for living. In another scene is a full shot of Toto’s mother hitting Toto with eyebrows raised facial expression conveying that the mother is angry by the fact that Toto spent the milk money for a ticket to go to the cinemas. Tornatore is suggesting that escaping from reality once in a while is great to have but if we escape too long from reality we cannot live in this world. Juxtaposed to a common interpretation of the beauty of the past, the director is conveying the reality of the world’s