Syntagm and Paradigm

I tried to understand the words Syntagm and Paradigm and apply them to a scene of a film as with language I personally find it a lot easier.

This is a clip from the film Taken when the daughter of the main character (Liam Neeson) is away and watches her friend get taken from her cousins apartment where they are staying. She knows she is next.

The paradigm is that in this scene there are two very different girls - one is very bubbily, confident, not afraid and the other one is more quiet, observed, content. But these two fall under the same category. The males who kidnap them want them both, even though they are completely different types of people they are still going to be apart of this kidnapping and being sold by these people.

As the scenes are always going back and forward to the scene of Kim hiding from the people who are trying to kidnap her and her dad who is sat down listening, helping her, we know that this is the main focus and syntagam the director wanted the audience to know. There could be many connotations to these clips as even though they follow each other and link together the future thoughts are 'will he get her back?' 'what is going to happen her?' this is what the paradigm of the choice of words tell us and make us think as the viewer. As he explains to her shout "eye colour, hair colour, anything you see"

"I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you" this sentence is a syntagam as "look, find" (verb), "kill" (object), "you" (the subject) but the choice of paradigms are used for the film to reflect Liam Neesons peformance of being strong, confident, a hero etc. Other choices of words could of been 'hunt', 'see', 'hurt' but those words wouldn't make as a strong impact as hunt could be seen as hunting with animals, hurt isn't as violent and shocking as kill and using the word 'see' gives the connotations he will definitely see him but as he isn't 100% sure he will see him he uses the word look as it'll make the other person be aware now that is someone is looking for him and there is no escape.

The obvious is that in this scene its the clear divsion of female and male. Identifying the paradigm is the feamle and male. If the roles were changed and it was the male being kidnapped by a female it would have completely different connotations and meanings as usually its females who get taken are sold.