Welcome back to my blog! This time I wrote a review about the Jamaican movie ''Ghett'a Life'', released in 2011. Hope you like this post!
1. Who was your favorite character from the film? Why?
My favorite character from the film is Dawn Thompson (Derrick's mom). I admire her because she is a very supporting mom. Even though Derrick was risking his life, Dawn motivated her son to pursue his dream of becoming a successful boxer to represent and unify Jamaica. She did not even care about her husband's opinion, she only wanted Derrick to be happy and she almost died for that. Such a brave woman...
2. How do we see the political conflict portrayed in the film?
The political conflict is very easy to perceive in this movie because it is a determining factor in the life of the characters. The story itself explains Jamaica's 70's garrison culture (I guess the movie was set in this decade due to the information of Brian Meek's article), where the city is divided by different political lines and local gangs use violence to manipulate people's way of thinking. In this case Derrick's father was a political campaigner from the People's National Party and Derrick had to train his skills in the boxing gym, which was in a zone dominated by the Jamaican Labour Party. That explains the reason why Derrick's family (and Jamaican society in general) had to face this type of political violence.
3. How are woman portrayed in this film? Is it a little or big advancement compared to ''The Harder They Come''?
In this film woman are portrayed the same way they were in ''The Harder They Come''. The only difference is the screen time. Both movies show women just as human beings that need to be attached to men. In ''The Harder They Come'', Elsa was all the time with Ivan or the preacher. In this film, Dawn is the typical mother in a patriarchal culture and Camella is always taking care of her grandfather.
I do not blame the director or the movie. I understand the film is just showing Jamaican society. Anyways, at least this time we got to see more development of characters, because ''The Harder They Come'' was all about the protagonist...
Do you agree with me? I am very interested in your opinion, leave a comment below!
I also thought Dawn was the best character in the movie. While the culture represented in the movie it is still very patriarchal, i think she managed to become a great character despite that.
ResponderBorrari think that everyone are agree that Dawn is the best character, so period, she is amazing uwu
ResponderBorrarDerrick's Mom was such a good character :) Nothing stopped her very inner feelings and thoughs and actually sticked for herself
ResponderBorrarWe are all Dawn´s fans !
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