The ending montage scene - Humans

Gender Performativity is how our performance of gender affects the world around us. - Judith Butler

Bell hooks - 'Feminism is for everyone' 

Intersectional feminist 


The ending montage scene: Media language 

Cross Cut between a number of story arcs (characters storys)

Camera work:

  •  close up shots of Laura looking into Anita's eyes
  • Close up zoom shot of Nishka in the brothel scene, where she is looing directly into the camera gives direct mode of adress
Nishka is putting on an act, its an allegory of what issues some women face in today's society 
The preferred reading of Nishka's assault in the brothel is to feel deeply uncomfortable, this is anchorded by the close up shot as it means you can't see anything else around her. 

Setting:
  • Leo and Max are staying in a car wherehouse with dark gloomy lighting which would stereotypically be a 'manly' place. - Hypermasuline 
  • whereas Nishka is in the brothel with bright pink lighting (binary opposite)
  • There is also the family home, Sophie being put to bed 
  • Dark lighitng throughout as it is set in the night time. Street lamps on when Anita walks down the road at the end 
Sound:
  • Music is the same as in the beginning credits - tense
  • The diegetic sound through the ipad Mattie is listening to a man speak about synths, this then turns into the voiceover for the rest of the scene 

Paul Gilroy - Postcolonialism 
There are subtle differences between the representation of non-white and white people in media products.

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