The Arrival

The Arrival takes the form of a monologue, a woman walks into a café and sits down before we start to hear her internal monologue, the audience quickly learns that she is pregnant and waiting for the father so that she can tell him. the main conflict in the film is whether or not she will go through with the pregnancy, at first she seems fairly confident that she wont but throughout this begins to change, midway through a train comes past causing a lighting change which coincides with he woman changing her mind.
this film actually reminded me a lot of operator in the fact that it relied very heavily on dialogue to indirectly tell a story rather than explicitly showing it on screen, it think that this technique could be something I could consider for my short however it in no ways makes it easier as the dialogue would have to be very good to pull it off.

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