precious 

The trailer for Precious uses many narrative techniques but it’s not your typical Hollywood drama. Applying propp’s characters you have an antagonist that is Claireece's mother as she is abusing her and not allowing her to live in a stable home. The heroine in the movie is her child as he brings Claireece happiness and someone to love and receive love from. The helper, mentor, and father are the teachers and social workers as they help her get through the abuse and get her to love herself by showing her love and respect.

The film's narrative is clearly introduced in the trailer and follows Todorov's theory of disequilibrium. The trailer starts off as her dreaming so we already know that her life isn’t stable. Then when her mum wakes her up by splashing water over her then we know that. The introduction of the school shows us equilibrium as it shows a teacher asking her what she’s good and telling her that everyone’s good a something.

The trailer is full of Barthes' enigma and action codes. When she is dreaming and explaining how she would like life to be you can see that her life is going to be very unstable. When Claireece is dreaming then all of a sudden water gets splashed on her it intrigues the audience because they want to see what happens after. Same with the scene where Claireece is on the stairs and her mums threatening her and then throws something back at her then Claireece throws it back down the stairs then her mum chases after her. This suggests there will be moments of drama and tension in the film and the only way to see these resolved is to watch the whole movie.