The Narrative Form Of The Film Happy Together

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1 Short Essay 1 The Narrative Form of the film, Happy Together The narrative form of Happy Together is very sophisticated , in the sense that special treatment of the narrative order, frequency, duration, non-diegetic elements, multi-dimensional narration can be found within the movie. Greater details will be given in the following. The story of the movie is about the complicated love relationship of two men, named as Ho Po-wing and Lai Yiu-Fai, their togetherness and the later apart, the event within their time in Argentina, and the changes in their state of mind. The story starts by the quarrel of Ho and Lai in Hong Kong and follows by their travel in Argentina, and in Argentina, they got lost in their ways to the Waterfall and quarreled again and broke up. After then, there are Lai's working in the tango bar, the coming back together of Ho, the injury, Lai's change of workplace to the kitchen and met Chang, quarrels between Ho and Lai and their final breakup, the leaving of Chang and that of Lai, the visit of Lai to Chang's homeland and the end of the movie with Lai alone on his way. Some critique suggested that the visit to the Iguazu Waterfall can be interpreted as a leitmotif in the movie. However, in my own opinion, many other elements can also be found have recur many times as to press on the emotions and story-telling of the movie, for example, the words of Ho saying “let's start over again.”, the cigarettes, and the lamp brought by Ho with the Iguazu waterfall printed on it. Ho said the phrase, “let's start over again.”, once in the opening of the narrative, when, in the story,

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