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Six Shooter Film Analysis

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Six Shooter
The short film Six Shooter is an Irish bloody and black comedy about a melancholic train voyage where an older man known as Mr. Donnelly, an obnoxious kid, and a man with his wife meet on a gloomy train ride. The train ride for all four of them is meaningful because they are all mourning the loss of someone. This short film was released in 2004 and in 2005 it won an Oscar for best short film! How cool is that? People must have really liked it back then. This film features the themes of violence, guilt, inner frustrations, entrapment of loneliness, and the testing of moral values. Because of this, the audience may experience all kinds of emotions and leave them with unanswered questions. Therefore, one can say that the short film does attribute to Freytag’s Triangle in terms of construction and here is how.
As the story begins we meet a man named Donnelly, who gets some very bad news. The doctor tells him that his wife has just died, and he is left in complete loneliness. He is very upset because he didn’t make it on time to the hospital before she died. With his sorrowful inner soul, the next early morning he sets on a train journey to go back home toward …show more content…

Even after this warning the kid keeps talking and using inappropriate words. So, the man stands up and is about to fight the kid, but Mr. Donnelly stops them and tells the kid to shut up because next time he is not going to defend him if the man jumps him. As Mr. Donnelly and the man walk back to cabin to get a drink the kid sits next to the man’s wife and asks her to let him see the picture of their baby. When she shows him the picture he asks her if she killed him. Even though she says no because it was a cot death he insists that she probably did. She infuriates and walks past him but trips and rips her baby’s picture. This is the last straw to her, so she jumps off the

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