The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received positive early reviews and a ten-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening. It was a critical and box office hit in France and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards, three Magritte Awards, and nine César Awards, winning four, including Most Promising Actor for Matthias Schoenaerts.
This film presents meanings through various powerful scenes. This film is less focused on society and events occurring; this film focuses on the characters. The theme that this film was presented was poverty as the father and son in the opening scene was scavenging for food on the train to eat. Another theme that was reoccurring was hope, and this was shown through the protagonists not giving up on the fight and on herself for losing her legs.
Furthermore, Alian never gave up on fighting whether it was for money or not, and this symbolises how he valued his masculinity. Stephanie represents woman empowerment as she never gave up on herself after losing her legs and still carried on normal. The end scene of Alian, Stephanie and son walking together in the light symbolises the theme of hope and ended the film on high note. Whereas the other films watched (la haine) represented that they was trapped in poverty.
Saira, there is so much missing from this analysis. You make statements then offer no explanation "This film presents meanings through various powerful scenes". Which scenes? Alian never gave up on fighting whether it was for money or not, and this symbolises how he valued his masculinity, How? this is where you should be using specific examples from the film to evidence your understanding of the topics that you present.
ReplyDeleteCCCEO, does this exist in this analysis?