Abstract: It is said that Delueze’s movement-image theory rejects narrative， which has confused many people. Delueze’s film theory has become one of the most difficult ones in the film study realm. In effect， Delueze’s movement-image theory does not reject narrative. Rather， Delueze replaced the general idea of narrative with the concept of “modulation” and replaced Saussure’s two-dimentsional narrative model of “two axes” with a three-dimensional model. His narrative construction did not happen in two dimensions， but in spaces. Apart from “paradigm”， Delueze’s image system also includes traditional narratives such as “syntagm” and “cause and effect”. It is simply the the switch of systems that has aroused the feeling of strangeness. Saussure’s model depicts the essence of human narrative. Though Delueze’s image system changes the external shape of traditional film narrative theories， it can never truly avoid the nature of narrative.

Key words: film, Ferdinand de Saussure, Gilles Delueze, movement-image