Narrative Analysis On Suspense In The Complex Narrative Films

From the beginning of the 21 st century,a number of new "complex narrative films" using suspense narration have emerged in China."complex narrative film" refers to a linear logical narrative film that is distinguished from linear narrative films and often interweaves narrative lines.Compared with non-linear narration,the biggest difference lies in the fact that it places more emphasis on some connection between different narrative lines,not only disrupting the linear narration,but hiding the common features among the complicated narrative lines.At the same time,complex narration often uses suspense to gain audience's recognition of the film's theme expression and characters' fate.In terms of suspense narration,the ways applied in complex narrative films are mainly divided into structural suspense and paragraph suspense."complex narrative films" interweave and tell two or three or even more stories.The viewer's interest in watching the whole film often lies in finding the connection between these stories,thus forming structural suspense.Through the accidentally intertwined plots,viewers pay more attention to the minor characters and understand the value that "what goes around comes around".Through the changes of the characters' states after the "car accident" events linked in a network,the identification with the expression of the theme is aroused.The construction and concatenation of time and space in "complex narrative films" break the linear logical relationship,making viewers need to constantly replenish narrative gaps in the disordered time sequence,thus forming paragraph suspense.The characteristics of its blank narration enable viewers to continuously re-recognize the transformation of characters,identify with many characters,and form expectations of the fate of characters.Time retelling caused by space-time reconstruction forms the supplement of key information and enriches the expression of scenes,and finally helps viewers release emotions and reach identification with characters.