Montag, 5. Mai 2008

Before watching the film


Before we begin to watch the film in class, our teacher wants us to watch only five little sequences. I wrote down the time and place of action (a) and then I guess what could be social relationships and problems (b) in the movie.
Here are my results:

1) Advertising of Enoch Powell (0:49:00-0:49:21)

a) - one old man and a boy distribute flyers
- a Pakistani passes by
- the old man affronts him
- the boy salutes in Arabic and gets a slap in the face by the old man

b) - racial discrimination to Immigrants contra acceptance of immigrants

2) Meenah kicks a football (0:53:43-0:54:20)

a) - Meenah, a girl, kicks a football in a window of the old man and destroys a poster of Enoch Powell
- The old man looks angrily through the torn window and begins rail against Pakistani

b) - racial discrimination

3) Koran lesson (0:14:01-0:14:32)

a) - children of the Khan family don't want to go to mosque, but the father coerces them into doing so
- in the mosque only one of the children prays intensely

b) - problems dealing with traditional actions and interest of the children living in a different environment

4) Asian market (0:48:02-0:48:32)

a) - father buys two Asian huts and two Arabic watches
- they are probably for his children

b) - father wants his children to be dressed traditionally

5) Going to Bradistan (0:29:08-0:31:29)

a) - family makes a trip to Bradford
- children are bored
- father talks about his immigration to England, he thinks about what he has reached
- they arrive at the place name sign for Bradford, but it is sprayed into "Bradistan" (picture)

b) - the immigration becomes mass at one place;
- problems through getthoism

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