A Man Who Delivers - Day in the life of a cocaine dealer

http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2013/06/20/a-man-who-delivers/

Narrative develops through continuity editing - time shown through multiple layers of editing, audience made aware of the daily routine of the dealer through the times he sends and receives these text messages. Todorov Structure also used - in equilibrium, enjoys his job, leads a 'normal' happy life, we find multiple women have left him as he won't quit his 'job' - equilibrium at end as he returns home to lounge on the sofa and watch telly - audience presume daily routine will restart next day.

Use of cinematography effective - lots of point of view shots from inside the car which makes audience see what his life is really like literally. This film could be linked to Richard Dyers theory that 'How we are seen determines how we are treated, how we treat others is based on how we see them. How we see them comes from representation.'. This is seen in the way the buyers treat the dealer - We are able to read his text messages as they appear on-screen, this is useful for audience time-keeping and also through this use of mise-en-scene the audience can imagine what it must be like to have so many people texting him - seemingly unharmful texts however what they really want is cocaine. However it is clear and becomes a little uglier when the senders of these texts maintain their 'politeness' while constantly texting the dealer with multiple texts in a matter of minutes, in this the audience can see their addiction yet still do not become unpleasant - is this because they know what the dealer can be like? The audience find that the dealer from the dialogue seems like a normal guy, but does he have a dark-side or is it simply that the stereotype made by the senders of the text automatically assume that if they get on the bad side of this 'cocaine dealer' that the results will not be pretty.

Richard Dyers theory could also bye used in vice-versa, in the way the dealer treats the buyers. He simply sees them as buyers, cocaine addicts and this may affect the way he treats them. He knows that the buyers are addicted to his product therefore demand will be fairly inelastic, he knows that when they want it they will pay whatever and will have it at whenever is convenient for the dealer and therefore like the last text we see, the buyer says he is desperate but understand that it's late at around 11 at night, the dealer asks how many he wants and when the buyer replies with just the one, all of a sudden the dealer is on his way home and this leaves the question in the audience's mind as to whether the situation would've been any different if the buyer had wanted more - I imagine it probably would have.