The Crying Game Literary Elements

The Crying Game Literary Elements

Director

Neil Jordan

Leading Actors/Actresses

Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson

Supporting Actors/Actresses

Jaye Davidson and Forest Whitaker

Genre

Thriller

Language

English

Awards

BAFTA Award for Best British Film and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Date of Release

18 September 1992 TIFF and 30 October 1992 in UK

Producer

Stephen Woolley

Setting and Context

The action is set in a rural area in Northern Ireland and London in the 1990s.

Narrator and Point of View

The film is narrated from the perspective of the main character, Fergus, who tells the story from the perspective of a first person subjective point of view.

Tone and Mood

The tone used in the film is a violent one.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is Fergus and the antagonist is Dil.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is between the IRA and the British government as well as between Fergus’ love for Dil and his desire to fight for the IRA.

Climax

The film reaches its conflict when Fergus finds that Dil is transgender.

Foreshadowing

The ending scene, the moment when Fergus takes the blame for Dil, is foreshadowed by the story he told in the beginning, the story of the Scorpion and the Frog.

Understatement

When Fergus claims he will never be able to be with Dil because she is transgender is an understatement because he later returns to her.

Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques

N/A

Allusions

One of the allusions made in the play is that the IRA should not be perceived in a negative way. The IRA and its members are presented in a positive manner and as victims, the idea transmitted is that they only wanted to fight for the independence of their country.

Paradox

A paradoxical idea is how Fergus decides to protect Dil even though Dil killed his friend and member of the same group he was in.

Parallelism

No parallelism can be found in the film.

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