"Going Beyond the Still Image"- The Cabbie

1. Characterization- who is in the movie
2. Conflict- what is the climatic moment
3. The resolution and feeling left in the film

The main character is the taxi driver who finds a teddy bear on the ground after dropping off a passenger. He seems very dark and mysterious at first because we don't know what his intentions are with the teddy bear. He decides to bring the bear home and we continue to question his actions. However, when the audience sees him tucking the teddy bear under his daughter's arm and kisses her, we understand that the taxi driver is harmless. At that moment we realize that he loves his daughter very much, so he gives her a present (although he picked it up from the ground). The minor character is the daughter. She seems innocent as we watch her sleep. She is surprised and delighted when she discovers a new toy beside her.

I think the climax of the film is when the daughter finds a hole in the bear and pulls out a key. She holds it up in front of her and her face blurs, while the key begins to be focused more. I think the discovery of the key is the climax because all along we believed the bear was a harmless toy, but in reality it was hiding a mysterious key. It gives the story a twist and the plot heads in a different direction, less on the father and girl, and more on the scary crate containing the unknown.

The resolution of the film is when we see a close up of a mysterious crate. The camera slowly zooms out until the audience sees a long shot of a mysterious crate in the middle of a dark room. We don't know what is going on. This leaves the audience with a lot of questions. Does the key open the crate? What does the crate contain? What is the girl going to do next? How is the father going to react? Who put the key in the teddy bear? Will the story end in tragedy? The ending of the short film leaves the audience with far more questions than answers, so we are left to imagine what the final ending of the entire story will be.