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OK… Then What Is Syuzhet?
On the other hand, syuzhet acts as the focus of the storytelling. If fabula is the truth behind a narrative, then syuzhet is the message in front of a narrative.
After all, by organizing events from a story in certain ways, you can mislead the audience or confuse the message, making a story tell a different truth. That is the power of the syuzhet, or the “subject,” of the story. That is what we call “plot,” and it’s how a movie like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) can surprise and delight an audience, despite the twist of the movie coming at the “beginning” of the timeline.
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