Narrative Codes Appropriate To Genre

Narrative Codes Appropriate To Genre 

The narrative is 19-year-old Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped and brutally murdered. Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lundt and her replacement Detective Inspector Jan Meyer team up to solve the mystery. Troels Hartmann, a politician, is in the middle or a hard-fought mayoral campaign when evidence links him to the murder.
Immediately the Enigma we are posed with in the fist episode is who killed Nanna, and why 
but we also have the confusion of Nanna being in Hartmann's car.

Neale
Neale says 'Genre is instances of repetition and difference'. The Killing's genre is film noir. Although the Killing does not have narration or a sexist view of woman, it follows many conventions of film noir:
        - Bleak view of humanity
        - Blood
        - Death
        - Killing
        - Evil
        - Victims
        - Darkness

 Todorov
Todorov believes in the 5 Stages of Equilibrium. The Killing shows most of the stages. The first stage is the balance... in the killing the first episode shows the Larsen unaware of their daughters death. The disequilibrium is actually at the beginning of the show, as you see Nanna running through the wood. the recognition is when they find Nanna's clothing and the attempt to fix it is the whole case. 

Strauss 
Strauss says 'Binary Opposition drives a narrative forward' this is like saying Good vs Bad, Right vs Wrong, or Smart vs Dumb. the killing shows this different ways. One main narrative is Justice vs Injustice. Other is within the characters, Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lundt and Detective Inspector Jan Meyer. Lundt is patient and sympathetic whereas Meyer is hot tempered and impatient. 


Knight
Knight theory is we watch the show, even though we know the outcome, for the thrill. This applies to the killing as, even though we know that they will solve the murder and catch the killer, we watch it for the thrill of going through the case with the detectives as if we are including in the drama. We are given the mise en scene, like the detectives, therefore in our mind are also trying to solve who did it and why, by looking for clues.

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