Bifurcated narratives - a narrative in which the story is split in two.
This film does not use a conventional Todorovian narrative structure.
How is the story split in two?
What comparisons similarities are there with the two halves?
How does the alien change in the these two halves?
What is the subtext of this bifurcated narrative? What is Glazer’s message?
How does the use of a bifurcated narrative relate to the wider themes of beauty and society’s perceptions of beauty?
