Slumming it is a 2010 documentary directed by Kevin McCloud. McCloud heads over to dharavi slum in search to find how people live and what they do to live till the next day, McCloud encountered eye to eye contact in and shocked at how space is a valuable thing in dharavi, McCloud is revolted to see children playing beside open sewers full of human waste and toxic sludge and explains how diseases like diphtheria, tuberculosis and typhoid are rampant. Mr McCloud seems quite admiring of the slum factory and their owners who’ve made themselves slum millionaires by avoiding to pay their taxes and by exploiting both child and adult labour, and how the people of dharavi have a strong sense of community, these are all show under long shots, close up, voice over, interviews and mise en scene …show more content…
Dharavi is a calm place with no danger people aren’t selfish or dangerous “it’s virtually a place with no crime” when the communities come together people don’t cook for their family they cook for the whole community. During McCloud’s journey he encounters dharavi’s gem and it’s really full of people and every building is strong with no crime in the city “it feels more like a busting Mediterranean village. The resistance are afraid in how this is all going to go away with the development plan, McCloud interviews one lady that knows about the development plan some people want the development plan to happen some don’t if people live in 11 story sky scrapers because there won’t be any sense of community because you would be isolated from the rest of the world. Before McCloud leaves he interviews Monica’s family in how they will get a much smaller home if their house gets broken, in one way these people are happy being poor “with such little things they are all so happy. These are all presented with long shot, close ups interviews and voice
In basketball, the National Championship game is the dream of every kid that plays basketball in college. NC State’s basketball team wasn’t well known in 1983. Jim Valvano was the coach and he knew he had a great group of kids. When they won the ACC tournament against the great Ralph Sampson and Virginia, people thought that the win was just luck and they probably wouldn’t make last when they got into the tournament. Throughout the tournament, NC State kept surviving and advancing. In Johnathan Hock’s documentary “Survive and Advance”, Hock uses stock footage of the games that were played during the tournament, different points of view from the players, and the sequence of the documentary to prove that NC State’s basketball team were the underdogs during the whole tournament; however they were able to win despite their adversity
Melvin Udall is a successful novelist living in New York City. In the beginning of the movie he is an irritable, obsessive-compulsive man who alienates himself from those around him. To add to his alienation, he works from home and does not allow anyone in his apartment. His routine consists of going to the same restaurant, being served by the same waitress and eating at the same table every day. His mental disorder is also displayed in several different obsessive-compulsive actions such as turning the locks five times and doing the same for the lights in his home. One day, Melvin’s homosexual neighbor is assaulted and put into the hospital. Due to the misfortune, Melvin is forced to watch the neighbor’s dog while he recovers from the assault. At this point in the movie, Melvin develops an emotional attachment to the dog and his attitude begins to change for the better. Melvin decides to help the waitress from the restaurant by paying for her son’s medical bills. This gesture comes after him having a meltdown when she did not show up to work to serve him. Near the end of the movie, Melvin makes a trip to help the neighbor and invites the waitress to come along. The trip does not go as planned, but the experience helps him to learn to communicate and have better relationships with people. In the end, Melvin falls in love with the waitress and is willing to learn to overcome his obsessive-compulsive lifestyle to be with her.
In 2012, Scott Thurman published The Revisionaries, a film that illustrates how the Texas edification organization has settled into a modern rise of outmoded, religious, and ideological wiles, with each associate fostering their dogmata’s of both ontological and theological complications in Texas education. Additionally, Thurman’s film also highlights how their programs have had the consequence of retelling critical creeds of America, and how that affects scholastic processes nationwide, for an ample aggregate of people to befall on. Likewise, The Revisionaries congregates on concerns that various scholars acquire conception of in their Texas Government lecture, such as, constituent turnout in Texas, politicization, the Texas learning structure,
Introduction It should be noted that the way a film is planned, designed and the environment and culture in which the film is acted are very important in understanding the theme, message and the purpose of a movie. A poorly planned movie or film, for example, may not pass the right message. Using the movie entitled Boys N the Hood, this paper will exemplify why planning, design, environment, culture and society are crucial towards understanding the general message, theme and purpose of the movie. The analysis will be based on thesis statement that the movie entitled Boys N the Hood is a high quality movie because it is well-planned, designed, contextualized and should at least express one cultural or societal issue. The key areas that shall be analyzed include the setting, the friends, the language, the title, and the environment.
Is this satire or is this the truth? That was one of the questions i had to ask myself while watching the video Negrotown by Key and Peele. To be honest, I chose to do a synopsis on this video because I have watched a lot of their material. I always find their acts to be humorous with a mix of truth and exaggeration. However watching the video clip of Negrotown for educational purposes, and after rewinding and pausing trying to absorb as much information I could, I found myself asking questions about what it is to be black in america or should I should be having a knee slapping good ole laugh at the video. In this synopsis I will be discussing how Negrotown affected me.
equally? It seems to me that the answer is no. The world did not seem
In these episodes of Slumming It, you experience the horror of the urban environments on earth. Kevin McCloud decides to go to Dharavi, Mumbai where you see how the water is contaminated, the sanitation isn’t the best, and you’ll notice how diseases are easily prevalent. Dharavi has a population of 16 million people and almost half of them live in slums. Slums are usually located in over populated areas. Regardless of the obstacles these people face, they maintain a sense of spirit and have high hopes that things will be changed. You can see how religion plays a huge part in their spirit. The fact that the city wants to tear down these slums is sad and selfish, they should be helping the community sanitize and reconstruct these slums for these
Another reason for urban change in Dharavi is the rapid population growth. India’s population growth has been taking place at a very fast rate. India contains nearly one fifth of the worlds entire population. This increase in population has caused many problems for the people in Dharavi such as unemployment, pressure on infrastructure, scarcity of resources as well as inequitable income
What if I told you that I know the outcome of your life and where you will end up before you even know it? Wouldn’t you be scared? See for a regular person who has a supporting family around them this question will almost feel almost like a death sentence. Nobody wants anyone to judge them before they even go through life on what they will end up being.
As I reread this article over again I realized that Jose is being stereotyped throughout the entire article in many different ways, from moving to America when he was 12, with no family or friends to rely on for support, to going to school and having to learn English by himself, to going to college to getting a professional job, all while doing this he was and is an undocumented immigrant. By reading this article they are stereotyping Jose because, he was from the Philippine who came to the America when he was 12 years old. He mother wanted to give him a better life so she decided she needed to send her only son thousands of miles away to live with her parents in America. He had no other family members in America and no friends for support. When I watched this movie in class as first I thought it was just about a story of a boy who turned his life into having an amazing career, not realizing he is an undocumented
I want to start this review by telling you how much I admire the work of British director Ben Wheatley.
As I continued to watch the film, I began to reflect on the importance of the study of race for Africana Studies. Studying race is an opportunity to explore the historical and contemporary circumstances of race relation in the world today. Having students understand the intersecting roles of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and culture. Students can have a better cultural awareness, which helps shape their experience dealing with people of a culturally different background throughout the world.
In the film The Host, it portrays what a society without problems or feelings would be like. For example, the people do not lie, steal, or kill. Although, along with this, people can no longer grow any sort of feelings. Everything that makes humanity is stolen. To movie’s social commentary is it takes away everything that represents humanity the good and the bad.
Being aware of the fact that their personal needs are incomparable with the ones of wealthier people facilitates to understand individual behavior. Moreover, it is very unlikely for the residents of the slums to have certain aspects fulfilled from the fundamental human needs. Slum residents oftentimes are satisfied with their life, since the closely related community they live in helps them overcome the lack of other important needs. Overall, there exist biased opinions about life in slums; it is often perceived more disastrous than it actually
The film that is being used for the movie analysis is “Enough”, this movie was chosen due to the fact that it is based on domestic violence towards women. The movie begins with in Los Angeles diner were a waitress named slim works with her best friend Ginny (Kazan, 2002). While working her shift slim has a customer that starts harassing her over the name she has, but the companion of the annoying customer defends slim, which in turn starts a romance, later to become a marriage between the two (Kazan, 2002). The couple is later blessed with a daughter they name Gracie, and at the beginning the marriage seems to be a fairy tale out of a story book (Kazan, 2002). The fairy tale becomes a nightmare as time moves forwards for the couple,