Comparing the film 'wasp' and 'soft'

‘Wasp’ is a film about a single Mother who is struggling to look after her children. She lies about them being her children and leaves them outside a pub when she goes out with her boyfriend. ‘Soft’ is a film about young boy being bullied by a group of boys and they also target the father; towards the end of the film, the son attacked the gang leader, which ended the attack.

Both films ‘wasp’ and ‘soft’ share similarities. Firstly, they are both short films and both share the genre of Drama. Also, both films use real life issues that are happening in people’s day to day life and our current society. Furthermore, they both target the same age audience of 15-18 years old; due to bad language and violence-which only a mature audience could see. Moreover, the use of the children switching roles with their parents shows the audience how this does happen in real life issues – the boy protected his father in ‘soft’ and the eldest daughter had to look after her siblings in ‘wasp’.

However, ‘wasp’ and ‘soft’ share differences too. The endings of both films were different, ‘wasp’ ended well as the mother had support from the boyfriend who accepted her children, whereas ‘soft’ made the boy realize what a coward his father is. ‘Wasp’ connotes the theme of poverty, love and deceit and ‘soft’ connotes of vulnerability, violence and revenge. Furthermore, both films use different objects to foreshadow the plot; ‘soft’ uses the bat left in the passage way of the door to foreshadow is main use towards the end of the film and ‘wasp’ uses an actual wasp, which features in the kitchen watching over the mother and her lifestyle, which again appeared when the baby almost swallowed it- the use of the wasp made her realize and snap out of the lie she was trying to live.