The Line 2007 Essay

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“The Line- 2007” is an award-winning film directed and written by Kent Basset and Mariah Montgomery. Throughout this film, there’s a significant exchange between Arizona natives and Mexican natives. The Arizona natives in this film live and work on the Arizona-Mexico border to protect their homelands from the Mexican migrants. However, due to the language barrier and the reliance of sub-titles I focused a lot of my attention on the film’s setup and the use of space to keep track of the storyline. I felt like the transitioning between stages also known as cross-cutting worked perfectly for this film because it helped compare and contrast the characters behavior and their emotional similarities. The film starts off introducing us to both the main characters Omar Nunez, the illegal immigrant …show more content…

The relevancy of the topic helped me as the viewer gain an emotional connection to the storyline. The reason I mention that there is a social behavior gap in the movie was because Danny Jackson didn’t give Omar the opportunity to plead his case as to why he was at his ranch. Instead, he took action and killed an innocent child looking to help his father, and In the final scene, we see that Omar’s dad is afraid to seek assistance in the United States for his son, which was significantly impacting to watch due to the reason his son died in the first place. Furthermore, this brings me to the music. Also, I believe that the composer, Lior Rosner, selected an incredible music theme for this film. The sound was perfect in every stage and paralleled the characters behavior and/or attitudes. The choice of music and color really helped set the mood in each stage. The dark cloudy colors signified that the journey for the immigrants wasn’t going to end well, which creates a psychological effect on the

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