Joy Ride Analysis

The short we looked at today in class was called joy ride, this short film explores the concept of causality. this is when one sequence of events cause another sequence of events to happen and so on through out the film. the film is about a electrician who is sent out to fix a fault in a pylon but thinks its not worth bothering with so he decides to go home. then he finds a man in the road, gets kidnapped and and goes through a series of events through out he ordeal.  

I have made a flow chart of the causality concept and how it works in this video. 

The man doesn't fix the pylon >      

which causes him to drive home early >      

that causes him to come across a man in the road >     

that then in turn causes him to get kidnapped >    

when he is in the boot the cuts the brake light wire >       

which made the police to pull the kidnappers over on the side of the road >      

then that causes him to scream for help >      

which causes the kidnappers to kill the police >     

that then causes them to drive off again faster >      

he tries to escape again but gets petrol over him in the boot >      

which makes him disable the electrics for the lights >      

which then makes the kidnappers crash >     

the boot opens >     

kidnapper holds a knife to the mans throat >    

the man head buts the kidnapper >      

the man walks up to the road which happens to be next to the same pylon that he didn't fix >       its still sparking >     

sparks hit him  >     

which ignites the petrol which kills him.

This theory of causality is used in big block buster films, in most films this is what most story lines are made up of, but it is more subtle than the use of causality in this short film as they use it just as a frame for the story line, not the main point like they used it for in this short film as there is an element of irony because if he fixed the problem in the first place he wouldn't have died.