Thriller Task - Planning: Plot Narrative

The plot of the film involves a murderer; a patient with multiple personality disorder called Bruce Stringer. But his multiple personalities take the better of him as he attempts to see the difference between reality and fiction. However, a murder occurs and there was a witness. This witness was David Croft. As Dave tries to convince people of the murder he witnessed, people begin to lose trust in him. As he continues aimlessly to try to prove he witnessed the murder, police begin to hunt him down. Dave better get away, or is it Bruce?

Bradley Roberts, on our group, wrote this plot summary as an idea for where the film would be going after the opening so that we have a direction to head in, and he researched how other films, such as Se7en, used their plot narrative effectively without giving the whole story away. This helped Bradley to write his own plot narrative.

"A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer... " - Source IMDb.


Max Bi found this source from IMDb and it really makes things clear if you read about the movie what the movie is based around, but not what will happen within it. It creates clear character differences and murder motives, which are needed to make a plot narrative effective. I notice that it reveals which Sin comes first, which would ruin the reveal in the theater because it would be more obvious to make each sin clear within the movie before someone is murdered for that Sin. but Se7en did what it did and it was an effective plot narrative at best.