In film and televison narrative is always present. The most obvious form of narrative I can think of would be David Attenborough narrating Blue planet. He explains whats going on and informs us of what we are watching.
Perhaps a less obvious example of narration would be Rorshachs role as the narrator in Watchmen
In Watchmen follow the character Rorshach attempts to solve the mysterious murder of The Comedian.
Through his narration we are given his biast opinion and thoughts, we see the world through the warped eyes of Rorshach. The structure of a story was worked out by Aristotle, "A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end"
These are the basic principals of storytelling. A theorist called Todorov came up with his own theory of narrative he explained that in a story there is, EQUILIBRIUM--->DISEQUILIBRIUM--->EQUILIBRIUM
In Watchmen arguably the equilibrium is that the heroes are all retired or working for the government , the disequilibrium is that the comedian is murdered along with impending nuclear war . The new equilibrium is that nuclear war is avoided through Veidt's plan for world peace, Rorshach is killed.
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