It is the telling of the story that matters. Not the story.
The Beatles: we can make a nursery rhyme a top ten hit.
When considering non-linear narrative, how important is Ryan’s sixth criteria for identifying narrative; the notion of ‘closure’?
Closure links to cause and effect
In Korsakow we can have an end SNU, but if we are working with non-linear narrative then there really shouldn’t be an ending
We can get non-linear films which still imply a start, middle and end structure
The person making the work may want to create their own sense of closure by providing an ending
Closure is essentially a fundamentally idea to ending. Only when somethings ends do we understand something. When we get the ending, we can look back through what we have seen and try to understand why certain things happen
Films can break in Korsakow 2 thirds through, and we should be able to assume that it is the end
Personally, I don’t think I would like no closure in a K film. I think it would feel undone and it is almost as if you can hand in what ever you have done up to that point and you can get away with saying ‘I didn’t want an ending’.
The audience controls and defines when closure happens depending on what we put in our work.