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Film Techniques Used In Babakieueria

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Babakieueria is a Satire film which focuses on how people are treated based on the skin colour, this film shows the relationship between Aboriginal people and White people. The type of Satire which is used is Junvenalian which is a rough, abrasive, rude type of Satire. The film was made in 1986 and directed by Don Featherstone who is an Australian filmmaker, his work includes documentaries about significant figures in Australian culture and arts. The purpose of the film is to show racism in society, how Aboriginal people are treated and the stereotypes about them as people and of their culture. Humour is used in this film, real humour, satirical humour about real life events and problems. The three types of humour I chose to focus on during …show more content…

The reason I chose to use this humour for Babakieueria is because the film itself is dark and depressing, the way that the people are treated of both skin colours isn’t pleasant, in the film we see a white girl get taken away from her family and in real life that happened to Aboriginal children. Another example of Dark humour is the pessimistic attitude of both cultures. An example of this is when Bunji Gunji the police superintendent says that “We pour money into white people and look what happens they either get drunk or end up in jail or both” this shows that he believes that only bad things will occur if white people are …show more content…

I choose to use this humour because I believe that this film mocks the lifestyle of white people. White people live in a very simple lifestyle with the farther going to work, the mum staying home to do house work and the two young children going to school. The police superintendent in the film says “They might have to get off their back sides and do a decent days of work for a change” this insinuates that white people don’t try new things, this is one of their weaknesses. I believe that another weakness of white people is of voicing their true opinion for example when the reporter asks the parents if they believe that the government are “doing the right thing” the father says “aww yea” he says then the mother says “very good” “they’ll look after us don’t they kids” the father says while looking at his son “but you said the other night why can’t they put TV shows with white people?” then the dad responds with “aw yes we say that but it doesn’t mean anything were really happy”. As you can see the dad denies his own opinion once the camera is on him, this is one of the weaknesses white people show throughout the

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