The narrative closure of Breathless and Double Happiness, are quite different. The definition of closure: The degree to which the ending of a narrative film reveals the effects of all the causal events and resolves (or "closes off") all lines of action . Therefore it's clear that the plot is over there are no questions left unanswered. In both the films Breathless and Double Happiness the narrative closure is only partial. In both these films we are left wondering of certain events that are left unresolved. Although the film, Breathless leaves us confused and unsettled. Double Happiness is far less confusing and unanswered.

Jean-Luc Godard produced Breathless, in 1959. It was created during a period in film history called the French New Wave. This film is about a car thief, named Michelle. He kills a motorcycle police in the first scene of the film, and flees to Paris in order to get money to escape to Italy. He also goes to Paris to try to convince Patricia, an American art student, with whom he had a brief affair to flee to Italy with him. She is very indecisive and after a few days she decides that she loves him, and that she w

Double Happiness, unlike Breathless, is a fairly new film. It was produced by Mina Shum in 1993. The film opens by introducing us to the protagonist, named Jade, as she delivers a short monologue about what it was like being raised in her family. "I grew up wondering why we couldn't be the Brady Bunch", she confides, later adding that the Bradys never needed subtitles. Double Happiness is a comedy about Jade Li, a twenty-two-year old aspiring actress struggling to balance the traditional expectations of her Chinese family with the realities of living in the western world. Jade is a bubbly, optimistic and funny Chinese-Canadian still living at home with her parents and her younger sister. Her parents decided that it is time for her to start to date and therefore the matchmaking begins. Jade is set up with 2 good-looking and successful Chinese men.

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Meanwhile, Jade meets a white man named Mark. As their relationship grows, Jade tries to keep him away. It is as if she is living two separate lives. But, when her father finds out abut Mark, she feels she must choose which life to live.

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