1. In the beginning of the film Whiskey Galore, I was intrigued by the image of a fishing net in the foreground of the shot, being pulled put of the ocean by a man of the island. That will be my anchor for this rush.
2. the conflict is the struggles between Scottish islanders who try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship and the home guard captain who is an Englishman,who stands in the way. There were a good deal of secrets being kept as well.
3. There is a connection between the scene where the mother gets mad at her son for not telling her before she found out that he was getting engaged. This relates to the theme of secrets being kept in the Scottish town.
4. Show a shot of the town in distress over when they are investigated and dissolve shot into a shot of a man fishing and find out he has a broken net( more of a scenic transition/connection). These scenes together will symbolize the connection of the town being torn apart by secrets and investigations.
You're right about the struggle between the islanders and the Englishman standing in their way. It's worth remembering, though, that dramatic tension doesn't typically correlate with the characters' explicit actions and pursuits. And in this case, there's an even deeper tension tension ethnic and civic modes of identity (Gaelic culture versus British citizenship.) Even in the case of the secret engagement this cultural/civic tension remains pertinent (in that the soldier is British). What I love about your idea for the image of the net are the various ways in which "net" links with the question of culture/identity. A government is a type of network, just as a culture can be said to be woven together from strands, etc.
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