1. Who was your favorite character (s) from the film? Why?
I think my favorite character from the film was the mother of the protagonist, she wanted to support and help her son, and also she fought against the gangs that wanted to kill Derrick. Dawn Thompson it was amazing for me, because she tried to be a good mother, maybe because she lost their other son, and tried to don't do the same mistakes with Derrick or maybe she was a real good mother, independet of the situation. For Dawn the politics was a stupid thing, and when she saw that Derrick start to understand that the society can’t be work with murders, the intimidation and the constant flow of blood, I think she felt good, like if in that moment his son opened their eyes for the first time.
And also I like the old enemy of Derrick called Gully rat, because he changed her vision of the reality, they converted in friends after to fight in the boxing gym. I suffered when Gully dies, because he salve Derrick and his family, when in the past he always said thathe hate the band who represented Derrick and his father.
2. How does the film compare to the other Jamaican films from the 70s? (Besides visual effects, think about the plot and character development).
I think in all the movies that we saw in the course represented the poverty, very similar to the “Favelas” in Brazil or the “Poblaciones Callampa” in Chile, because the cities appeared to made of garbage, and the constant presence of the parties or the gangs showed us a cruel reality, all the people live with fear and submission. Again all the population that we could saw in the film are very skinny, this a clear example to the shortage of the food, the police can’t control the gangs and murders, the robbs can change easily in a fight. So, I think all the representations that we could saw in the three movies of the course means that the drugs, the music, the politics, and basically the money moves the people, and control them.
3. How are women portrayed in this film? Is it a little or big advancement compared to the films from the 1970's?
I wishing to say that is a big advancement, because Dawn brokes the story and converts in a important character, but in entire movie the women is showed exactly like in the other films, for example, the daughter of the coach didn’t speak much, and the romance that she had with Derrick is very forced. Besides all the women associated with boxing are stereotypes, the society and the director sexualize them, and showed with little clothes, and obviously they don’t speak, they only walk and display their bodies. I really hate this, because it's not real.
viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2018
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The Pain Tree Short Story Review
1. Who is your favorite character from the story and what kind of background do they come from? Why? (Use examples from Michelle Cliff's essay, If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire)
I think my favorite character could be Larissa, because the protagonist said good things about her, for example for her she was like her mother. But also Larrisa surprised me. I almost cried when she talked about the death of Larissa’s sons, this memory showed us a strong woman, but also a woman how really suffer, and the only option she had to leave the pain away was the Pain tree. I think is really important this woman. In first place, because she can personifies the social workers of that time, and in second place, because she represented a culture, for example: “Eh, where you come from, girl?”, this sentence is relationate with the context of th story, with the traditions, the legends, and the unequal society.
In the same line I also think the Michelle Cliff’s text presented us the same sexism to, the discrimination and the social strates, because always the woman is in a second place, and like a woman or a girl you only worry for been pretty and been nice with the people. When the protagonist remembered Larissa, her imagen always appereded like a shadow or like a hidden person, and it’s interesting how she focus in the dessaire of Larissa in have nice clothes, and how the protagonist remembered the girls of his age, the majority been pretties, and I think they was a little dumb.
2. Why do you think Lorraine’s mother mocks the workers that want independence from England?
I think maybe the figure of the Lorraine’s mother respond to a racism and petulance very notorious, because she thought that the workers that wanted the independence of England don’t been conscious about their jobs, because the society funcinate with the poor people and the richs. The world works in binaries, that’s means for Lorraine’s mother, that the independence it’s a waste of time, is like a bad joke, and she felt good with self because she was in the top of the social scale, she didn’t need have a job, but the other people needed it, and she was gonna be right there, waiting for new employes.
3. What is a “pain tree” and how does it play a role in the story?
I’m not sure if this story is ficcional, but I think the Pain Tree is representation and metaphor of the pain of the people, but not everybody, is place that the people who suffer can leave her pain in the nature, in a part of the earth, and after of that, you can move on, you still living, and maybe you feel good. This representation is really important for the story, because made a difference between the richs and poors, and this heavy, because Larissa said something very rough about this, like this means that only the poor people feel pain, and the only way to survive is leave the pain in this tree. If you are rich and you are sad o angry probably you buy something, but in the other side, they need to be strong because the life is unfair. The Pain Tree is an option to survive in the society.
4. What is the meaning of the line “people like me would always inherit the land, but they were the ones who already possessed the Earth”?
I think is a reflexion about the existence of the Pain Tree, and how the society works, because the people with money could have the material things, the material spaces and the social power, but the real things, the relation with the real people, with the earth, the environment, and the animals, that’s a bond that the other people don’t have, because they are use to have everything, money, clothes, food, but the real things, they can’t see them, and for they that doesn't matter.
I think my favorite character could be Larissa, because the protagonist said good things about her, for example for her she was like her mother. But also Larrisa surprised me. I almost cried when she talked about the death of Larissa’s sons, this memory showed us a strong woman, but also a woman how really suffer, and the only option she had to leave the pain away was the Pain tree. I think is really important this woman. In first place, because she can personifies the social workers of that time, and in second place, because she represented a culture, for example: “Eh, where you come from, girl?”, this sentence is relationate with the context of th story, with the traditions, the legends, and the unequal society.
In the same line I also think the Michelle Cliff’s text presented us the same sexism to, the discrimination and the social strates, because always the woman is in a second place, and like a woman or a girl you only worry for been pretty and been nice with the people. When the protagonist remembered Larissa, her imagen always appereded like a shadow or like a hidden person, and it’s interesting how she focus in the dessaire of Larissa in have nice clothes, and how the protagonist remembered the girls of his age, the majority been pretties, and I think they was a little dumb.
2. Why do you think Lorraine’s mother mocks the workers that want independence from England?
I think maybe the figure of the Lorraine’s mother respond to a racism and petulance very notorious, because she thought that the workers that wanted the independence of England don’t been conscious about their jobs, because the society funcinate with the poor people and the richs. The world works in binaries, that’s means for Lorraine’s mother, that the independence it’s a waste of time, is like a bad joke, and she felt good with self because she was in the top of the social scale, she didn’t need have a job, but the other people needed it, and she was gonna be right there, waiting for new employes.
3. What is a “pain tree” and how does it play a role in the story?
I’m not sure if this story is ficcional, but I think the Pain Tree is representation and metaphor of the pain of the people, but not everybody, is place that the people who suffer can leave her pain in the nature, in a part of the earth, and after of that, you can move on, you still living, and maybe you feel good. This representation is really important for the story, because made a difference between the richs and poors, and this heavy, because Larissa said something very rough about this, like this means that only the poor people feel pain, and the only way to survive is leave the pain in this tree. If you are rich and you are sad o angry probably you buy something, but in the other side, they need to be strong because the life is unfair. The Pain Tree is an option to survive in the society.
4. What is the meaning of the line “people like me would always inherit the land, but they were the ones who already possessed the Earth”?
I think is a reflexion about the existence of the Pain Tree, and how the society works, because the people with money could have the material things, the material spaces and the social power, but the real things, the relation with the real people, with the earth, the environment, and the animals, that’s a bond that the other people don’t have, because they are use to have everything, money, clothes, food, but the real things, they can’t see them, and for they that doesn't matter.
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