Representation - City of God and La Haine

Points to be included within the essay:

• Be sure when looking at the two films, La Haine and City of God, that the differences are highlighted. Looked at as a contrast mainly, as opposed to finding similarities as this will be more challenging. 
• Include the cultural context of the two countries (Brazil and France). 
• Reference the different examples from the films, that will back up the points made to reinforce your argument. 
• From the extent of the difference --> Context. 

Relevant information to include in the exam:

• You can detect how much La Haine uses Narrative, more so than that of City of God, which uses style. A reason for this being that City of God is made for an international market,despite showing the poor side of Brazil, possibly not all the aspects. 
• La Haine is more of a representation on the culture of France (Historical). Where as City of God is possibly more of style over substance, along with cultural representation. 

Narrative and Representation exemplar questions:

• Narrative plays a significant role in communicating messages and values. To what extent is this evident in the films you have studied?
• To what extent are the films dependent on style and themes to communicate social and cultural meaning?

A key point in relation to the first question regarding the characters, an aspect of narrative, is that of how France was like during the 1930's. - Increase of immigrants and foreigners, and what caused the riots.  

Message: Government causes all the chaos. Riots are caused because of the government, who treat the immigrants inhuman, as they want an assimilated nation. In the desire of that, the nation seems to have forgotten their national motto (liberty, fraternity and equality). Instead of the "pure" and "real" French people, it is the immigrants who apply the national motto, amongst themselves. 

Answering the Question: La Haine and City of God, both are realistic. However, La haine is more realistic in terms of representation, compared to City of God. 

Exemplar Essay Point: How the immigrants are presented, in relation to the nations cinema, history and time period. How the immigrants were forced to act, social pressures, which led to conflict and riots. Conflict  between the young immigrants and the government officers (police).  Explore how City of God uses gender as a mean to support what people in Brazil are actually like, especially men, who are actually young boys in the film. Each character in the film, represents a certain emotion.