Ghett'a Life Review
1. Who was your favorite character(s) from the film? Why?
I think my favorite character is Derrick, the lead role, because he was really looking for his destiny as a boxer and fought for it. Maybe I wasn't crazy about the actor performance but the decisions Derrick makes in the movie, show us the good writing and directing, achieving that we as an audience care about this character.
2. How do we see the political conflict portrayed in the film?
The political context in the film about Jamaica, is shown as a fight between sports as a representation of two kinds of people, for one hand Boxing (JLP and the importance for the gym where the main character trained) and soccer (PNP and the political factor of political participation from Derrick's family). This conflict between the parties, let us see some violence that elevate through the movie, but is interested the director's decision of didn't glorify violence but only show us how to live despite that.
3. How are woman portrayed in this film Is it a little or big advancement compared to The Harder They Come?
The representation of woman in Ghett'a Life insist in this conservative society where the movie happens. Maybe in a way more mature that appears in The Harder They Come but still conservative. Derrick's mother is always in her little table with the sewing machine, representing the vision of patriarcal jamaican society, where women stays in home, taking care of her family, feeding the stereotype. But the decision and determination of the character when she speaks and put everything she has in order of take care of her family, show us other step of character development that we couldn't see in The Harder They Come.
But something is important: the lack of female characters with dialogue lines in both movies are yet, the representation of a conservative society.
I think my favorite character is Derrick, the lead role, because he was really looking for his destiny as a boxer and fought for it. Maybe I wasn't crazy about the actor performance but the decisions Derrick makes in the movie, show us the good writing and directing, achieving that we as an audience care about this character.
2. How do we see the political conflict portrayed in the film?
The political context in the film about Jamaica, is shown as a fight between sports as a representation of two kinds of people, for one hand Boxing (JLP and the importance for the gym where the main character trained) and soccer (PNP and the political factor of political participation from Derrick's family). This conflict between the parties, let us see some violence that elevate through the movie, but is interested the director's decision of didn't glorify violence but only show us how to live despite that.
3. How are woman portrayed in this film Is it a little or big advancement compared to The Harder They Come?
The representation of woman in Ghett'a Life insist in this conservative society where the movie happens. Maybe in a way more mature that appears in The Harder They Come but still conservative. Derrick's mother is always in her little table with the sewing machine, representing the vision of patriarcal jamaican society, where women stays in home, taking care of her family, feeding the stereotype. But the decision and determination of the character when she speaks and put everything she has in order of take care of her family, show us other step of character development that we couldn't see in The Harder They Come.
But something is important: the lack of female characters with dialogue lines in both movies are yet, the representation of a conservative society.
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