Narrative

Narrative is the way the story is organised. The elements of narrative are "Time", "Closure" and "Enigma". Time is the period in a film which the events take to unfold. Closure is what happens usually at the end of a film, the "happy ending" of the film. The Hollywood films always have closure. Enigma is the problem which needs to be solved.

Classical Hollywood narratives are usually always linear, and have very few if any sub plots (e.g. flashbacks) and always have closure which is a happy ending.
the theories of narrative are
1) Tzvetan Todorov who believes all films work with an Equilibrium which is the normal everyday life which then is changed by the Disruption which disrupts the equilibrium, which is then solved by the Resolution and makes the new equilibrium but this equilibrium is never the same as before. An example of this theory in work is in the film Scream's opening scene with Casey Becker played by Drew Barrymore