This article will focus on how direct cinemas tell their stories about reality in terms of narrative structure. It will articulate how direct cinema depends on narrative structure of classic melodrama to make meanings with vivid and uncertain images, whereas the documentaries before direct cinema often depends on language to do so. It will analyze narrative structure of classic melodrama and of classic direct cinema , and show the difference and similarity by comparison. This comparison will lead to a discovery that various characteristics of direct cinema such as focusing on emotion rather than action, observation to a certain extent and telling about human beings in certain institutions by comparison and contrast, can find its similarities in classic melodrama like . Furthermore, it will light on how much similar ’s describing a protagonist in institution be to by analysis of false point of view shots in .