The Power of One SEXXY Paragraph and other things I guess...

In English, we have been tasked with writing a SEXXY paragraph about a camera shot seen in the film Power of One, it is the long shot seen in the scene in which Sergeant Bormon approaches Geel Piet. SEXXY is an anagram for the criteria of the paragraph.

Statement (of what's going on in the shot and what it is)

Example (of what is going on in the shot)

eXplain (the director's purpose)

eXplain (the effect on the audience)

Your link (to something else to do with the aspect)

The long shot scene described

P.K leaves his mother for boarding school

In this scene, the long shot is used by the director to show the Afrikaner guard as he approaches Geel Piet. In the long shot, we see Geel Piet as he exits Doc’s jail cell with the bucket of tobacco leaves, as well as the guard staring him down from a distance before he confronts him. John Avildsen, the director, used this shot to establish something, in the scene we also see two smaller prisoners sitting aside, and while Geel Piet stands up and stands up to Sergeant Borman, he gets beaten back down to the same level these prisoners, who have surrendered themselves to the authority of the Afrikaners by sitting down. As Sergeant Borman stands to confront Geel Piet, he has a baton in his hand, the effect this has on the audience is that this incites the thought of incoming violence towards Geel Piet or the prisoners in the approaching scenes or shots. This aspect can be contrasted to another scene in which the long shot is used to show P.K

as he leaves his mother to attend a boarding school.

Also, I kind of worked with Connor.

We also had to answer some questions that Miss Johnson gave us.

What does the director of the film The Power of One, John Avildsen, want us to know?

John Avildsen wants us to the story of Apartheid and World War || from P.K’s view and lifestyle. The story of P.K takes a different perspective on what happened during these times, instead of taking it from the view of a Black African or an Afrikaner, it takes it from a young English boy. He wants us to know there weren't just two sides, Afrikaners and Black Africans, that there were other people who took sides in the fight for what they thought was ‘right’.

How does the text depict Black Africans? Afrikaners? The English South Africans?

It depicts them as soldiers, as people constantly at war with each other. The Black Africans want their home, their people, their tribe. They are shown as the ‘good’ people in this story, I say this not to pose them as if they aren’t, but to only say that that is what they believed and what The Power of One depicted them as. Afrikaners are depicted in a worse way, they are shown as guards and soldiers who beat down the people around them, whether they are the English or Black Africans. The English South Africans, however, are treating very differently among the two people. It quite really depends on what view you would want to take. Towards the Afrikaners they were regarded as enemies and threats, while this may be true, they are not nearly as attacked or targeted as the Black Africans are. When it comes to the viewpoint of the Black Africans it is varied, P.K is seen as an ally and a friend of these people, on the other hand though, we never get to see how these people reflect on other English South Africans.

Is the text fair in how it depicts these people?

No. There were many that fit into the stereotypes I similarly presented, but that does not apply to every single character. As I have had said, I can’t seem to generally put the English South Africans together due to how little attention the characters besides P.K get from the Black Africans. In place of this, Maria is a prime example. She was a purebred Afrikaner and had had such views forced onto her for her entire life, however she did not take this into account and defied her Afrikaner brethren to help the Black African people read and write. Even getting killed for it.