Film Analysis Of Lucy Walker's Waste Land

Waste land is a very powerful documentary, where Vik Muniz takes us to a different world, but during the time he’s presenting this place one can relate with the humans living there. They live from others trash, some are ashamed of what they do, others are proud of what they do, but most of them if not all believe that is a dignifying job, their way of leaving.

In today’s society, there is an abundance of waste. This is clear in observing how people live, we often throw out items because we want something better. Lars Eighner, author of "On Dumpster Diving," writes about his experiences being homeless and how he survived on the waste of others. This provides insight on how the phrase "one man's trash is another man's treasure," is true. Jeremy Seifert, who directed the documentary Dive!, also talks about how he survives off of other people's waste, but this was a decision he made. As they tell of their experiences, Seifert and Eighner both come to the conclusion that society is wasteful. While both individuals provided good information, I believe Seifert presented the better argument. Both of

There are numerous ethnographic surrealist films that have an intriguing relationship to aesthetics and politics. A film that exemplifies this relationship is “Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan” (Land Without Bread). This film is only 27-minutes and is directed by the infamous Luis Bunuel in 1933. Bunuel was a Spanish filmmaker of the 1920’s to the 1970’s. He is often attributed to being one of the major contributors to the surrealist movement of the 1920’s. “Ethnographic surrealism is a utopian construct, a statement at once about past and future possibilities for cultural analysis.”(Clifford, 119) ‘Land Without Bread’ has a clear connection between politics and aesthetics. It uses many techniques, specifically

Andy Mulligan’s “Trash” deals with challenging issues, including poverty and children living in third world countries. He uses setting descriptions and rich characters in this book to help the reader to understand poverty and third world countries as it helps the reader to understand the themes in the book. Poverty and third world countries are also presented to the reader as Mulligan uses different language techniques throughout the book like the description of the dumpsite. Sensory language and imagery are the techniques that Mulligan uses to cause the reader to almost physically feel some or all the five senses that Mulligan intends to share with his audience.

During this time Enrique meets a girl named Maria Isabel who much like Enrique has moved from home to home over the course of her life. As the two start spending more time together Enrique wants to start a family with Maria Isabel so that they may both have a more permanent family structure, but Enrique’s drug habits worsen. Because of Enrique’s misfortunes with drugs he put his family at risk with his drug dealer threating to kill his cousin who he believes to be Enrique’s sister. To prevent his drug dealer from murdering his cousin Enrique steals jewelry from his aunt. Enrique tries to get his life back on track but gets into fights with his family and is eventually kicked out of his grandmother’s home; around this time Enrique also find out Maria Isabel is pregnant with his child. Enrique felt that being left behind by his mother as the root of his problems in life and as such sets off on a journey to America believing that she is the key to fixing his

Flavio lived in a place full of poverty, the home was located on the outsides of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the shack had its walls beaten down, holes in them, and patched up. Flavio's family had to retrieve the water that they would use to clean the rice, then they would reuse it to wash the sisters feet, later they would put soap in the water and bathed the children. The siblings did not get along; they would constantly fight, but it would be when one child got a taste of food before anyone else. Flavio’s parents had to work a lot in order to have enough money for all of the children; therefore, they did not have enough

Poverty was a big factor that often plagued the working class immigrants. One of the main characters, Marija Berczynskas, goes through multiple jobs throughout the duration of The Jungle. Near the end of the story, once Jurgis returns to his family from his journey in the country, he finds out that Marija had gotten a job as a prostitute. She accepted the job to financially support what is left of the family and to allow Teta Elzbieta’s children to go to school. However, because Marija is addicted to dope and cannot stop, she is not able to leave prostitution. Once Teta Elzbieta’s brother, Jonas, disappears, two of

Among violence against women and gender inequality, death is a constant factor that runs through the whole story this culture is surrounded by it every day and even when there is drought death is expected, but infant mortality is a constant battle. There are multiple occasions where infants die, mainly because of what they are being fed and how they are treated. It is understood that Monique’s baby’s health is declining throughout the story. The main cause of children

Although, both fathers took the position of the mother due to the death of both of moms; but, Joaquin’s love is similar to the Man with unconditional devotion to give their child the best to live with. One of the scenes in González and Daughter Trucking Co, when Libertad was young, her diaper drops into the mud. However, his father is apprehensive when he drops the diaper unintentionally. He picks up the diaper quickly and uses his tongue to lick off the germs being afraid that his daughter will get infected by the virus. Libertad recalls her memory, “The concept of germs was foreign to him. Perhaps that is why I’ve always enjoyed good health” (Escandón, p.95). Due to Joaquin’s anxiousness when he attempts to clean up the virus by his tongue, Libertad grows up as a healthy and diverse lady. Her father’s role becomes a model she looks up to and a significant figure that Libertad grow up

Rodriguez does not comfort whose mother even though he feels something is not right. Richard thinks that his mother is “sad” and wanted to approach her and ask however claims they are “questions of paradise.” if someone's mother felt sad or upset, usually there children would try to comfort them and understand what they are feeling, however richard feels his mother’s pain but does not even try to ask what the cause of it is. Richard compares his mother too material objects. Richard thinks that his mother “seems very small,” when compared to the “expensive foreign cars” behind her. Richard instead of notices his mother, notices the expensive foreign cars more. Richard also does not even recognize what his parents are doing. He didn't realize that his father “has” only said one thing to him all evening. Someone would notice if their father had not spoken to them all day, however richard does not realize this to the very

Seeing that the spiritualist hasn’t really helped and still unable to be intimate with his wife Casto calls for a meeting of the family to help him decide what to do next. During the meeting Zoraida’s mother blames Casto for not feeding her daughter. Casto replies that he doesn’t have time to feed her because he has to go to work to sustain his family. Casto believes he is the head of the family and the bread-winner and believes that his wife should stay home, cook food and take care of the kids. Casto’s mother, Dona Elvira, thinks that her healthy son is too good for his frail wife.

Nevertheless, instead of the satisfaction he expected from his wife about her new house, Mamacita seems to feel discontented about it. “She still sighs for her pink house, and then I think she cries. I would. Sometimes the man gets disgusted. He starts screaming and you can hear it all the way down the street” (p. 77). Mamacita gets extremely nostalgic about her pink house in Mexico. Her complaints make her now-irritated husband to yell and force her to stay in her house on Mango Street. To make matters even worse, her baby boy begins to imitate an English commercial he has heard on television. The book mentions, “… the baby boy, who has begun to talk, starts to sing the Pepsi commercial… No speak English, no speak English, and bubbles into tears. No, no, no, as if she can’t believe her ears” (p. 78). Mamacita’s child has begun to speak English, a language that she can’t interpret at all. The thought that her family relies on English devastates Mamacita, and this makes her feel completely torn apart. In the end, Mamacita refuses to learn English and assimilate to the people around her, so she becomes isolated and lonely.

She is offered a job as a maid in the home of a wealthy landowner located in Guatemala City, and she jumps at the chance, seeing it as an opportunity to learn Spanish. However, after arriving in Guatemala City, she begins to understand the discrimination against her people. Even the dog at the landowner’s home is treated better than her. It is here that she meets Candelaria , an Indian woman like herself, working for the same wealthy landowner, but who speaks Spanish and dresses like a ladino. Candelaria often rebelled and disobeyed by neglecting chores and talking back to the mistress of the house. Rigoberta doesn’t follow in Candelaria’s footsteps immediately, but Candelaria’s rebellious and defiant disposition has an impact on Rigoberta soon after Candelaria is fired and kicked out of the house.

She gets excited when boys look at her on the streets. But her illusion of true love is destroyed by sexual violence. Her friend Sally’s behaviour towards boys contributes to Esperanza’s caution and distance by dealing with the opposite sex, too. Nevertheless, Esperanza does not stop dreaming of leaning against a car with her boyfriend in a place where that does not bother anyone. But she has set her standards higher than most of the women around her. She do not search for a man to escape from this place, she has seen too many unhappy marriages. Ruthie exemplifies such an one. She has run away from her husband and seems to be mentally disturbed. The young Rafaela is locked up by her husband because of her beauty. Nevertheless the tragic event is Sally’s which ends in abuse. Sally, Esperanza’s friend, only wanted to dream and share her love like Esperanza. Hurt and beaten by her father who just wanted to prevent the familiy’s ruin by Sally. To escape, despite of her minority, she marries a salesman. But unlike her wish, the abuse continues.

The emotion evoking 2014, film titled Still Alice featured the many challenges a family residing in New York City faced following the matriarch’s, Alice Howland, diagnosis of a rare form of familial Alzheimer’s disease. The film opened with Alice and her Husband, John, celebrating Alice’s fiftieth birthday along with two of their three grown children, Anna and Tom, as well as their son-in-law, Anna’s husband, Charlie. The couple’s third child, Lydia, was not present at the birthday dinner, as she was aspiring to be an actress and resided in California. Within minutes of the opening scene Alice’s mild cognitive impairments became apparent through her marked confusion while communicating with Anna and Charlie. As the film progressed, Alice herself, a renowned doctor of linguistics and college professor, quickly became cognizant of her own declining cognitive ability as she struggled with mundane tasks, such as imparting a lecture at the University of California Los Angeles. The subsequent concerning episode, where Alice became disoriented and fearful in due course while out for a run on the campus where she had taught for years and was therefore familiar with it’s geography, ultimately encouraged her to seek care from a neurologist.