
Story exists as a precondition to the plot, and the filmmaker must understand what story is being told before going through the difficult job of selecting events to show on-screen and determining in what order to present that. Specific events and elements are selected and ordered to present the cause-and-effect chain of events that enables the audience to experience the narrative the specific actions and events that the filmmakers select and the order in which they arrange this events to effectively convey the narrative to the viewer


Nondiegetic material and explicitly presented events
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all the events that are implicit or that we infer to have happened but are not explicitly present in the movie all the narrative events that are explicitly presented on-screen It also held the number one spot in the Japanese box office for three weeks.-Implied events and explicitly presented events Reception Ĭlose Range Love grossed US$9,812,922 at the Japanese box office. Japanese band Sakanaction performed the film's theme song, " Hasu no Hana". The trailer and poster for the film were released on October 6, 2014. The two of them finally reconcile at the beach where they had their first date. However she is unable to forget him after leaving to study at the University of California and she soon returns to Japan to confront him again. Heartbroken when Sakurai cuts ties between the two of them, Yuni decides to follow her dreams. Akechi asks Sakurai to encourage her to study abroad which he is reluctant to do but does out of care for Yuni. Mirei shows the photo to Akechi when he asks for Mirei's help to keep an eye on her as he is concerned about her strange behavior which leads to Akechi confronting Sakurai and asking him to leave Yuni as she has given up her dreams of going to her dream college for Sakurai. But things develop further between Yuni and Sakurai when Mirei tries to stop their relationship by taking a photo of Sakurai and Yuni hugging each other as she passes them. Mirei tells Sakurai what she saw and that she still has feelings for him. When a co-teacher introduces Mirei to Sakurai, Sakurai is surprised to see his childhood friend again.

Trying to keep it a secret, Sakurai doesn't know that the new homeroom teacher of Yuni's class, Mirei Takizawa (Asami Mizukawa), who is being shown around, coincidentally sees the incident between them. While bending down to pick the pen, he leans towards her before kissing her. Sakurai sees her and purposely drops a pen. Carol (2015) Based on the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Carol tells the story of an affair between two women in the 1950s, so you get the pleasure. What should I do?" while hiding under his desk in class. Every time Yuni has the chance to express the way she feels to Sakurai, she isn't able to do so.īut finally, Yuni musters up the courage to confess to her teacher and tries to do so by using a notebook that reads "I hate you teacher but I also like you.

With the encouragement of her only friend, Nanami Kikuko (Mizuki Yamamoto), Yuni realises that she has fallen in love with her teacher, Sakurai who also happens to be admired by every girl in school. And whilst having top grades in all her subjects, she isn't doing so well in English and so her English class teacher, Haruka Sakurai (Tomohisa Yamashita) gives her temporary private one on one English lessons.īut when the guardian of Yuni who is also the schools maths teacher, Kazuma Akechi (Arai Hirofumi), notices the differences in Yuni's behaviour, he decideds to put a stop to the tutoring. Kururugi Yuni (Nana Komatsu) is a high school prodigy who has a difficult time expressing herself.
