8/10 Clear demonstration that after being released from prison, and returning to ones old environment, it is very difficult to stay on the honest path in spite of strong intentions
23 February 2015 | by JvH48 (Amersfoort, The Netherlands)
Representation
- Lower class
- Ethnicity: set in a black neighbourhood
Messages and values
- Hope outside of prison for ex-convicts
- Changeling stereotypes
Genre
- Social realist drama
Narrative
- Linear
Theme
- Redemption
- Struggles
- Homelessness
- Family
Style
- Vermistituide
- You can hear sirens in the background
- You can see young children fighting
- Mother passed out represents bad parenting
- Helicopter searchlights suggests crime area
- Tattooed man suggests convict
- Both parents in prison suggest hard upbringing
At the start of the film sound is used to covey how bad the area he is currently in. for example, in the background we can hear police sirens which suggests that there is crimes occurring in the local area.
The theme of the film is shown here as the father is struggling to become straight as he owes money and is nearly killed as when two members of a gang shoot his cousin.
The theme of homelessness is shown here as he is trying to get a book published but he has nowhere to go and he has no money to make.
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