Margo Lily is a perfect example of a short film to look at the structure of a short and study the model of most short films. Margo Lily is a film about a struggling couple on the precipice of a broken relationship. Although that is one of the main themes the core theme of the short is their unborn baby that the mother wants to bury. If we look at the goal of the film we see that the most important goal of the film is to bury the baby, but on the other hand it is not just to bury the unborn baby, this is a collateral goal to the main goal which is the mend their breaking relationship. We see through the film that the father is not intent on actually burying the baby and see it as being very painful, so he just prevents himself from thinking of the unborn child, this is what the mother resents in him. When they begin to struggle with actual act of the burial the mother is trying her upmost to perform this and the father is trying to forget while not helping. Towards the end of the film, the father then decides to put his pain to one side to help the mother grief for the tragedy, and therefore their relationship is to my interpretation mended. This is clearly a situational narrative to bury the child and mend their relationship.
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