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Blog Task: Week 19

 The film I have chosen to analyse is 'Louis Theroux, Law and Disorder in Johannesburg'. The narrative of this film is very linear and chronological, you really get the sense that Louis Theroux has been sent to Johannesburg and the film just follows him around as he tries to speak to as many people as possible. It follows him day to day, it gives the impression that as it goes through it starts at the start of each day and progresses through to the end, with no cutting away to different times or cutting away to interviews with the cast that breaks the fourth wall. 

It is very much a film from the perspective of the filmmaker, Theroux is incredibly central to the narrative and every character in the film interacts with him as the filmmaker. In terms of secondary characters, however, it is incredibly varied and focuses on a few key characters all with different perspectives on the documentary's subject. From that key cast of central characters, more characters are explored but as sort of satellite characters, and exist only in relation to that key cast. 

Louis Theroux spends a significant portion of the documentary in voice-over, not narrating what's going on but instead he uses voice-over to give context to situations and inform the audience of his thoughts and feelings on certain situations. This is done so as to not distract from the situation at hand and to not break the flow of the narrative.

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