Tuesday 9 June 2015

Comapare the different ways in which conflict between the poor and the powerful are represented in the films you have studied for this topic. (35)

- Introduction - talk about the poverty, power and crime in the films and how important the themes and content of the films are in creating meaning to the audience.

- Tstotsi - barriers between police and poor people.
              - the stabbing of the rich man in train.
              - the meeting of the man in the wheel chair.
              - the fact that police only go in rich neighbourhoods.

-La Haine - real life tapes of people protesting against police.
                 - police corruption, brutality.
                 - the use of words like 'pigs' to describe police officers.
                 - The fancy art gallery in Paris where the boys get thrown out.
               
- City of God  - Difference between the slums and the city.
                       - Chicken run symbolises the poverty and the thirst to leave to a better place.
                       - Binary oppositions - beach, adds calmness for a minimal amount of time.
                       - Making the kids shoot each other.

Conclusion - how poverty causes crime and how it makes segregation between poor and powerful.

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