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…
Recycling is a major thing in dharavi it’s a way for people to be able to eat and live. Dharavi alone recycles 80% of Mumbai’s plastic. During the series McCloud opens us on how the people of dharavi live, he gets inside the rubbish truck with the garbage men and experience their job. McCloud really enjoys the ride “it’s always been a childhood dream to ride in one of these” he goes and picks up rubbish most of the bins where full of , syringes and infested rats there were no plastic bags because the rag pickers had been there and left the place messed up with rats walking around, this is all being presented with close ups. He gets dropped of to the recycling factory owned my Mr bead, McCloud wants to know how it works so the Mr Bead doesn’t what way he can explain “I wouldn’t be able to show you how it works its better if you stay and learn”. McCloud is shocked at things found in the bags, and the work conditions the kids are working in “children are not working with any protective gear on” “syringes and syringes” he presents that with a mise en scene and close ups on syringes used by the doctors and mise en scene on children working on top of sharp machines. At the end of the day people that work at factory sleep where they work, McCloud likes the place at times and hates it at times “Absolutely delight is alternated with utter hard” shown with a long shot of him viewing the city Dharavi has the largest number of sick people or people suffering from serious illness over 4000 people visit the doctors each day. in one of the series McCloud gives the viewers a negative view on dharavi by showing viewers images of children playing right next to sewage pipes and raw sewage he zooms up on the kid defecating on the street “oh look he is taking a s**t”. McCloud is shocked to see the kids playing beside a bridge, with them having possibilities of them falling in the pool of rubbish. “can’t they fall of the bridge”. This is represented with a high angle by viewing the kids playing near the sewage and walking up and down the bridge. During McCloud’s walk through the city with Rajesh he encounters water pipes the go to homes, found floating on top of sewage 1.5 metres deep, full of human waste, McCloud seems pretty concerned about the pipes braking and sewage going into water pipes inside people’s homes and therefore causing more diseases this presented through close ups. During McCloud’s journey into the heart of dharavi he admires the fact that the slum factories and their owners have made themselves slum millionaires by avoiding to pay their taxes and exploiting child labour which meant that anyone could start working at any age and still get paid people like Mr bead amaze mc cloud in how his business is expanding with 15,000 one room factories striving hard with industry with the turnover of 1 billion dollars per year no one knows about that because he uses other company names so that he doesn’t get taxes “hidden world with a darker side” all shown with close ups on people working in different areas. Kids start working at the age of 12 depending on your skill and what you’re capable of doing you get a better job “this city is 19th century of England and people working in the mills this is shown through a close up of the kids working. People of dharavi have a really strong sense of community in how you don’t have to worry about people or have second thoughts of people.
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
overs McCloud leaves dharavi knowing that the people of dharavi are happy the way they are he leaves knowing how the slum factory and their owner make themselves millionaires, how children play in open sewers and how the people have a strong sense of community
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
It takes a lot of courage and boldness to step out of your comfort zone to stand up for yourself and what you believe in. This is clearly shown in the movie, Secondhand Lions, directed by Tim McCanlies, when 14 year-old Walter is dropped off by his irresponsible mother for an unannounced visit with his two great-uncles, Garth and Hub. Walter is dumped with his uncles for the summer because his Vegas-bound floozy of a mother, Mae, decides to attend court reporting school, but ends up engaged to a guy in Vegas. With the bad influence of his mother and a lack of a father figure, Walter has never learned how to stand up for himself but his uncles soon teach him that. As the movie continues, Walter changes from his timid self into someone bold and gallant.
In the documentary Waging a Living, 4 families are presented that are living in poverty. Among those four individuals is Mary Venittelli. Mary is a single mother of three living in poverty. She is a waitress and makes $2.18 per night, plus tips. Throughout the documentary, we see Mary’s life and her struggling to make ends meet.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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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
Within the German Democratic Republic, there was a secret police force known as the Stasi, which was responsible for state surveillance, attempting to permeate every facet of life. Agents within and informants tied to the Stasi were both feared and hated, as there was no true semblance of privacy for most citizens. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the movie The Lives of Others follows one particular Stasi agent as he carries out his mission to spy on a well-known writer and his lover. As the film progresses, the audience is able to see the moral transformation of Stasi Captain Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler primarily through the director 's use of the script, colors and lighting, and music.
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
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,
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.