A2 CLIP NOTES

PARASITE

• Porteays the poor people as scheming and cruel

• they take pleasure in the fact that they are fooling with wealthy counterparts

• They do indecent things for the thrill of it

• The entire family can be characterised of being poor just by their scent - there is an innate difference between the social classes in the 5 senses. While they can attempt to match the rich visually, verbally, and in other ways, some things are hard to escape.

• Cinematography,

SWEET COUNTRY

• Shows one of the white people who were trying to catch the Aboriginal people desperate trying to get to water after being dehydrated. Sam, who has a gun and is aiming at him, chooses not to shoot. The shot suddenly cuts to a silent shot of the woman the man loves back in town, looking as if she’s waiting for him to return with her daughter. Sam does not shoot.

• This scene (honestly if I’m reaching) represents white Australians as people who hate the Aboriginal people of their community so much that they are willing to chase them very far and risk their own life, just to satiate their own ego and ensure that they feel more than the Indigenous. On the other than, it shows Sam to be kind-hearted and merciful, as he has the option to kill the man and therefore have no one chase after him and his wife after, but that sudden clip of the woman and her daughter seems as if Sam is considering the fact that he has people waiting for his return, and decides not to shoot. It shows the selfish and selfless dichotomy of Aboriginal and White Australians, and the racism involved. It is shown through the narrative context, cinematography, and editing techniques.