Plot vs. Story - Film

The plot is the sequence of events that happened to make the story. The plot is how the story came alive. “If the story is what happens in a movie, the plot is how it happens.” Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C.P. (2011) When we are describing a movie that we saw, we are actually describing the plot, not the story. Honestly all of this time, I thought I was describing the story, not the plot. You learn something new every day. The film that I have chosen to use is ‘Panic Room’, released in 2002 starring Jodi Foster (mother) and Kristen Stewart (daughter). This film is done in chronological order. The story of ‘Panic Room’: A mother and daughter take refuge in a safe room (“panic room”) during a break-in of their new home by three burglars. The burglars are after millions of dollars hidden in a safe, which is in the safe room where the mother and daughter are taking refuge. The plot of ‘Panic Room’: A divorced mother of a pre-teen daughter just bought a brownstone home in New York. They discover that there is a safe room (made of steel with cameras and its own phone line) that is connected to the master bedroom. Their first night in the new home, three men break in. The mother heard some noises downstairs and seen there were men in their home on the cameras in the safe room. She grabbed her daughter out of bed and ran to enclose themselves in the safe room. The men have realized that there are people living in the home; they thought the home was empty. The men have broken in to steal the millions of dollars that are hidden in a safe that is in this home from the previous owner that had passed. The problem is, the safe is in the room that the mother and daughter are taking refuge in. The daughter has diabetes and needs her insulin badly, due to no intake of sugar for a long period of time. The mother ends up risking leaving the safe room to get her daughter’s insulin. During the short time, the men got into the safe room where her daughter is