Evaluation Question TWO

In order to explain my repressentation of particular social groups, the initial step is to explain the social structure and divisions in my country. People are devided into three categories, like any other country, upper, middle and lower classes. However, being a third world country we have our majority still present in, partly the middle, and mostly the lower class. These devisions are mainly resposible due to income level, living standards and social set up and background differences. As explained above, having such a high density population in the two classes, it is well understood that very few people are present in our upper class. Now coming to the real question, what i did in my film was a little summary of how the upper class is, while slightly giving hints of the lower class too. I was able to represent this, by firstly, my characters who represent the upper class, and secondly, my location, which throughout, showed the low class culture. Before going on, i'm going to give a brief description of the story line of my film in order to be able to relate to it the rest of the answer that i will write. As i mentioned, my characters represent the upper class, i have shown a mother, a very posh one, who is responsible for her son's (my lead character) under confident and emotionally weak nature due to her extreme empowerment and dominance over him. In order to give the feel to the concept i tried to represent the strength and weaknesses of my characters by choosing a low class market as my shoot location. The entire time the camera shows how the boy's weaknesses are exposed due to, obviously, the life time torture treatment of his inconsiderate mother while the icing on the cake is the the market's filthy atmosphere itself. Now that the story is summarized, by now it is understood that i have represented 'classism'. However, thats not the only media 'ism' that is present in my film. How i visualized the 'over-pwering' nature of the mother and her dominance and fear casted over her son also represent's 'feminism'. I understand how feminism basically means ' the advocacy of woman's rights on the grounds of politicle, social, cultural and economic equality to men', i still consider that media is beyond just the definitions and we can show how it can be a problem aswell. Secondly, the way i picturized the son's character and nature including the relationship between him and his mother, i tried to represent 'humanitarianism'. This is because even in my film, it is basically about how that boy could have been something great within himself, but that ability, to be something dies in him before he can nurture it because he never gets that chance or that confidence to. And as humanitarianism has it, it is everyone's duty and responsibilty to respect human rights and to promote human welfare. I tried giving the same message  through a very minor example of simply a mother and a child, rather than being bold and giving the same message through bigger problems like racial descrimination etc. Other than that, i showed the typical culture of a third world country by the help of my location, as mentioned earlier. I chose that market just so it is visible to the audience how things can be absurdly exposed and dealt with in these low class markets. The way you just see meat hanging here and there, or a bunch of flies literally trying to devour the fruits and vegetable around, it all seems so amusing and different to those who dont get to see it much, but to those who're a part of it hardly care. In my film, thats what i was most anxious to show. I made my lead character faint in the market as he sees shrude and bold things happening around, just so that the difference between the standards of the upper class and the lower class are visible, even in a developing country like ours. He faints, but every where around, the rest of the people just walk in search of something to purchase. Things are how you see them, your vision is your way. But the reason i showed both characters going to that low class market rather than going to some mall is basically to show that even though our upper class has high income levels and living standards, it is the hippocracy that they'd still shop at that market, and later would be the ones criticising it aswell. I have noticed this a lot and so i wanted this fact to be a part of my film aswell. However its still a petty part of the product. The main ideology was to show how members of the elite class live their lives, whether it's about the way they feel superior, or whether they get so astonished by their 'new money' that they forget their very own responsibilities, be it towards their own close ones. And i chose to show a mother, not a father, because fathers are dominating figures anyway, but in the elite, women tend to be extremely dminating. This is mainly because they're educated and modern and usually they dont have that entire concept of men being the stronger ones. And i couldn't have showed this in a better way than to show it by the a mother's behaviour towards her very own son.