Story Plot

The Protagonist will be a gangster in his day job however, a normal person outside of the life of crime. He will murder for a living in order to gain money yet merely act normally outside of it. The two contrasting personas will create tension, as it will be strange for the audience to witness. Firstly, throughout the start of the film the protagonist will have his personal life and mafia life completely separate. Showing contrast between him killing violently and day-to-day activities. This changes when he kills a private investigators son as part of his job.  He is then under investigation for the murder that he committed and he begins to unravel, and his crime life begins to seep through into his personal life, ending in them both together becoming one. The investigator is only able to pick up on the murder due to his skill, as everyone else ignores it (as they are corrupt). Towards the end of the story the protagonist is pursued by the investigator and then finally killed. The investigator has to turn to illegal methods however, as the police in the city are corrupt. The investigator then will be left with the death of the protagonist on his hands, leaving the audience to question whether he was right to do so, or whether it makes him just as immoral as the protagonist.

The contrast and slow merging of the two different lifestyles will show how the protagonist slowly loses sanity and coming closer to his death at the end of the film. The use of illegal means to kill him used by the investigator however, highlights how the mafia are still in control and he must turn to violence and crime in order to defeat him. This follows similar narratives to other successful crime films such as Gangster Squad and Black Mass, which I have used as inspiration for my narrative. The film will also have various action sequences throughout and tense scenes building up to the end, however the above narrative is more of a basic outline that I will use for the trailer.

The plot of the trailer will focus predominantly on one scene showing the protagonist to be ‘normal’, in a natural environment such as a shopping in a supermarket or doing the washing at home. The audience will then hear a voice over, explaining a little about the protagonist and his characteristics in first person. This will soon switch to more violent clips showing the protagonists true nature and ‘work’ side of his life. This will continue building up, using various shot types in order to convey the chaotic side of his life. This will end with the protagonist either in a chaotic, insane frenzy at the end, or where the trailer started, ending with him in the kitchen or just a close up of the washing spinning around in the machine. This ending will highlight and support Todorov’s theory of equilibrium, ending how it started. However, the first ending will support the title of the film and convey the psychological state of the protagonist, hinting further at the films plot.