INDIVIDUAL FILM ANALYSIS

NAME:Nkandin Ishmael 

Index Number:BFAMP28039

🎞️ *The Camera* – A Story of Memory and Resistance

### 🎭 Protagonist:  

**Abbie**, a quiet, introspective teenage girl, recently displaced from her childhood home after the death of her mother. She’s sent to live with distant relatives in a coastal town, where she feels like a ghost in someone else’s life. ### 🎯 Objective:  

Abbie’s goal is simple but profound: **to feel connected again**—to her mother, to herself, to something real. She wanders the town each day, camera in hand, trying to capture something that might anchor her emotionally.

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### 🧱 Antagonist (with a set of principles):  

The antagonist is not a person, but a **presence**—a ghostly boy named **Eli**, whose spirit lingers in an abandoned beach house. Eli represents **the past that refuses to be forgotten**, and he operates by a principle:  

> “What is gone must stay gone. The living must not disturb the dead.”

Eli appears only in the photos Abbie takes with a strange old Polaroid camera she finds in the house. He smiles, but his eyes are hollow. He begins to haunt her—not maliciously, but insistently—trying to stop her from digging deeper into the house’s history, and into her own grief.

### 💥 Willing to Struggle:  

Abbie refuses to stop. She returns to the house daily, taking photos, leaving notes, even speaking aloud to the empty rooms. She believes that if she can understand Eli’s story, she might understand her own pain. The more she resists his warnings, the more intense the hauntings become—shattered frames, flickering lights, and finally, a vision of her mother’s face in a photo that was never taken.

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### ⚖️ Win or Lose It All:  

One night, Abbie stays past sunset. The house begins to collapse around her—walls groaning, wind howling, Eli’s voice echoing:  

> “Let go. Or be lost with me.”

She realizes this is the moment: either she lets go of the past and leaves, or she clings to it and becomes like Eli—trapped in memory, unable to move forward. She’s on the edge of losing herself entirely. 

### 🤝 Resolution of Principles:  

Abbie confronts Eli in a final vision. She tells him:  

> “The past doesn’t vanish when we stop looking. It lives in us. But we choose what to carry forward.”

Eli, moved by her defiance and compassion, finally smiles—not the hollow smile of before, but one of peace. He fades. The house stills. The camera clicks one last time—this time, capturing only the sea.

Abbie walks away at dawn, the camera left behind. She no longer needs it. She has chosen to live.