3-Act Structural Analysis

I. "Father, daughter short" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N954Bbylu6A&feature=share&list=PL5A58774805033196
    a. Act One
       1. a little girl and her father cycle on a lakeside path
       2. the father parks his bicycle against a tree, bids his daughter goodbye and then begins down the bank, toward a rowboat
       3. the father turns round, heads back up the slope to his daughter, picks her up and spins her around affectionately before he leaves
       4. his daughter watches as he rows out onto the large lake

     b. Act Two
       1. the girl rides a bicycle to the spot where she bade her father farewell each day
       2. each day the girl looks at her father's bike and stands there expectantly watching the horizon
       3. over the years, she repeats this rituals, sometimes passing other people on bicycles, who are going on with life
       4. one day, she rides along with a group of other young ladies cycling; she pauses at the spot where she said goodbye years ago; one of the young ladies beckons her, and she catches up to them
       5. the woman continues to gaze at the place she last saw her father, but she has begun to live her life
          i. she meets a man, who is also a cyclist
          ii. one day, the woman, her husband and their children cycle up that same path, and visit the shore where her father rowed off; by that time, the lake is dried up
   
c. Act Three
       1. the woman grows old and is alone but still rides her bicycle
       2. the old woman goes to the "farewell" spot and sets her bike on its kickstand; it falls over a few times, so she decides to leave it and slides down the bank
       3. the lake is now a sea of grass
          i. the old woman wades out farther and farther, until she reaches a small clearing in the grass, where she sees the rowboat her father rowed away in partially buried in the soil
       5. the old lady sits in the exposed part of the boat and curls up
       6. soon she arises and and starts toward something off the left side of the screen
       7. she walks and she becomes younger as she heads toward her father
       8. they embrace each other as the camera pans toward the sky