Narrative:
- Context-set in the middle of nowhere, isolated, rural, in the past, dark woods, blood mood- typical fairy-tale setting
- Starts with a flashback, goes to 10 years later
- Love story between the main female character and the boy who is classed as rebellious and not good enough for her are secretly in love, stereotypical forbidden love story and couple
- Girl-blonde, young, pretty, thin, always in white and light colours
- Male-tall, dark, handsome, always dressed in dark colours, rebellious
- Binary opposition- good/bad, light/dark, day/night
- Dissatisfactory world, couple were going to run away so they could be together because they weren't allowed to be in together at home, the bells stop them from running away – (something happens to kick the story off)
- The wolf kills the main girls sister
- The girl is told she is going to marry someone who she doesn't love because he has money, although the sister was in love with the man. The main girl is told she is going to marry him because she was the pretty one out of the two sisters. The mother doesn't want her daughter to marry for love, because she didn't get to either.
- Hybrid-werewolf
- The mother loved someone else, like her daughter and still tries to stop her from being with the person that she loves and tries to make her marry the person that has always liked her who has money.
- Family secrets and dysfunctional families- the mother had an affair with the father of the boy she is trying to get her daughter to marry.
- The film uses conventions of werewolf films and presumes that the 12 year old that are watching it, know and accept the conventions and folk law about werewolves
- 'Who is the werewolf?' is the main question throughout the film
- People in the film look to religion to find the answers on how to save their village but the religious man tells them not to trust anyone-'there is no knowing what somebody is capable of'
- The village is told that they should be weary of people who are outsiders, a bit different from everyone else, or people who don't fit the norms of society as they could be dangerous
- The main character(the woman) is made to be a victim of society and put in a vulnerable position and put at risk to try and save the village from the werewolf because everyone found out that she could talk to the wolf and so is used to get the wolf out and try to kill the wolf
- religion is shown to not solve everything as the religious man brought into the village to try and save them, gets killed and so does the villages own priest- cannot defeat evil
- Real/original red riding hood story comes in 3/4 way through the film, with bits of the script and acting taken from the original story(eating and drinking grandmother)
- Young vulnerable female, in the middle of nowhere, with no help around is in danger at the mercy of whats around the corner.
- Climax of the film/ main battle is between the wolf, who turns out to be the father of the main girl, and her and the man that she loves. the man that she loves comes to try and protect her from her father and stop him from turning her into a wolf as well. this is the battle between good and evil because even though she was always told that he was never good enough for her, he is the only one that comes and protects her and saves her.
- The film is the portrayal of a modern family- you cannot look to your family for trust and reliability, your family are always keeping secrets and you don't know everything
- The main female character (the female protagonist) is the on that kills the wolf and saves the village.
- resolution- from the wolf being killed is the village going back to normal even though the wolf is dead.
- she goes to live by herself in the wood because she is the 'other'
- Romance- the film tells you to go with your heart and go with the person that you don't and not to listen to the people around you
- References to other fairy stories throughout-Intertextuality
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