Cafe Waiting Love Film Analysis

Usually, film directors use different elements to describe a story while audience seldom notice or neglect how directors use them. In this paper, Todorov 's narrative approach, Mise-en-scene and cinematography will be used to explain how structual and visual elements cooperate together to direct audience identification in one specific scene.

Among the six required films, I am going to choose the Taiwanese film Cafe Waiting Love which illustrates different love stories around the main character Siying (思螢) when she works in Dengyigeren Cafe (等一個人咖啡). The chosen scene lasts for around fourteen minutes and starts when Siying decides to confess her feelings to the mysterious boy. She then tells the boy that she has a crush on him and she works in the cafe because of him. However, the boy rejects her and tells her his love story with the cafe 's owner. Siying soon discovers the boy

In the first part, audience can see her smile when she confesses and her frustartion after the failure of confession through her facial expression so audience may sympathize her. In capture eight to eleven, audience can see how nervous she is when she hides after the cafe bar. In capture twelve to fifteen, audience can see how happy she is and her smiles when confessing. In capture sixteen to twenty, audience can see how sad she is and her tears when she knows the truth. In this part, audience understands Siying by her emotion expression through her face so they take sides with her. For the second part, audience can see her crying when riding motor bicycle from capture five, twenty-one and twenty-two. From her acting, audience may feel how sad and regret she is to reject Atuo before. Taiwanese girls are too often percepted to be weak and gentle while Siying performs a brave and strong girl so her acting actually direct audience identification for supporting a usual female