Mitalee : Tickets

Tickets : Structure

Tickets is constructed in the format of a and b and c = the story instead of,
a after c after b = the story of x

Story One

Early on in the film, the scene where the train is checked before everybody gets on suggests anticipation of something negative to occur. This is added to, later on, when one of the military personnel on the train acts in the most insensitive manner with other passengers who are carrying a young child.

The opening sequence introduces a few characters including the old professor at the station who keeps looking back at the Indian family. Later cuts of his immediate past unfold as he writes a thank you letter to the kind woman who helps him.

There are constant cuts to an old, beautiful building and a window through which is the sound of a piano and a little girl playing it. There is a man sitting opposite to the professor who is seen watching him at three points. These appearances are of short duration but are a noticeable because the action is repeated twice again.

The next story starts through the family with the child getting off and looking for the next train. The station is the device of continuity for the film.

The next story begins with a fat old woman getting on the train with someone that looks like a nephew or some relation. She doesn’t reveal much about her life, her appearance, body language and the next course of events tell about her character.

The scene when she is accused is made around audience assumption that the obnoxious woman must also be a thief. The occurrence concluded as she is found innocent and the man is mistaken. She seems to be ridden by stressful situations and conversations. Later on revealed that she is attending her husbands memorial service might explain the constant staring at the posh looking young woman sitting opposite her.

What every central character in the sub stories has common is that their lives have changed on the train, encountering kindness and hostility.


Framing

A lot of the shots in the film are framed in a central fashion. Central usually means importance. This film has used these to emphasize the central character in the first story


Set : The stories are woven around the common thread of being on a train.

Sound: Story One
The sound of the piano playing repeats at set intervals following the professors memory of Sabine and followed by a glance at the Indian family sitting at the back.


Acting/Dialogue: In the first act the dialogues are very important as to the personality of the characters which can otherwise be portrayed without dialogue.

In the second story the woman sais to the boy that she is disappointed in him, which indicates that they share a history in which he did something to put her off and chooses to bear with her behavior toward him out of some guilt.

The buildup: The peak is in every story and the amount of anticipation is increased with every story. The Final story has the most amount of drama. With the scene of the argument between the three boys and the girl the tension point rises every point henceforth.

Climax: The plot is resolved when one of the boys gives the girl his ticket in the fourth story. The story make one last twist at the fag end with the escape of the three boys. This is the final note the movie ends on.

As a narrative none of the events coincide with eachother or have any connection, which is why it is not as predictable as it would have been otherwise.