Hello friends…,it has been long time no see ya....
This moment I would like to share to you my writing about a deep emotional film about Rhonda Gordon and her child who are Indian surrounded by American white ethnic.
Do you know Angela film?...
Ah.. I can make sure that you
haven’t known about this film :-P because you would never find this find this
film in youtube, or other web video, you have to watch it by online at www.nfb.ca/playlist/anti-racism-film/.
Actually I knew about this film
was from my lecturer, Mr. Halili, who had given me a task to analyze his film
for our mid semester examination. If you wonder about this film, let’s check
this analyze out :-D
I.
Introduction
ANGELA or For Angela is one of the films produced by National Board
of Film Canada in 1993. The story is about racism which had been being done by
American to Indian race. The interesting point in this film is about racism
which we have already known that it is race discrimination and has made quarrel
in each distinct race. “Racism is ubiquitous, it’s a global phenomenon”(McDougall,
2008).
II. Discussion
·
A Brief Summary
of The Film
Film “For Angela” is a film based on a true story about the courage
of Rhonda Gordon and her daughter Angela. They were Indian who live on a town
in Canada. The story has begun when Rhonda was bringing her children to go to
school. While waiting for the bus, they were sitting in a chair. At that time,
three young boys came and starting to disturb Rhonda and Angela by making
ridicule about Indian culture. One of them (Ian) was dancing Indian dance and
laughing, Rhonda and Angela just silent to keep their offense. While coming in
to the bus, the three young boys still disturbing Rhonda and Angela until they
were arrived to the school. However, in her work, Rhonda experienced racist,
until she had to do more lot of works than other workers. Arrived in her house,
Rhonda was busy with her work while Angela wanted to be accompanied by her.
After Rhonda had finished her work, she was surprised with hair was scattered
around her toilet. Then, she realized that his child had cut off her hair
because she didn’t want to be an Indian.
She could not handle her emotion, then she went to the school where
Ian( a boy who made ridicule in the beginning of the story) had been studying. However,
they finally could meet with Ian in the principal room. Rhonda was hugging
Angela while interviewing Ian, and he asked for apologize.
·
Stereotype and
Racism
It is over judging of beliefs and image about some groups of
society because lack of information. If we take a look at the film of “For
Angela”, there are some stereotypes from American to Indian. They (especially
the three young boys in the film) have opinion that every Indian like to dance
their freak dance and they thought that every Indian is poor, smells bad, and strange.
In the beginning of the story, we can discover that Rhonda got difficulty to
close the zipper of Angela’s jacket; it seems that the jacket was broken. It
signs that Rhonda was belong to low-working class, if was not, she would have bought
a new and better jacket for Angela.
The racism to
Indian race in this story was very strong and frontal. When Rhonda was bringing
Angela to go to school, she asked the bus to stop, but the driver of the bus
didn’t want to stop it, then they had to wait the next bus by sitting on a
chair. Furthermore, because of American stereotype to Indian made the three
young boys racist to Rhonda and Angela. Because the stereotype of Indian is
poor, Ian throws a coin for Rhonda.
The next racism in
this film is when Rhonda and Angela came to a school when Ian had been
studying; they got bad respond from almost all of people in the school. They
watched cynically to Rhonda and Angela.
·
The Fact that
Hair is Important for Indian
This idea I caught
when Rhonda was so sad seeing her daughter had cut her hair. From the film, we
can catch that hair is very important for Indian. It signs their identity and
they are very appreciating for hair that the God had given for them. And
because of Angela cut her hair and didn’t want to be an Indian, made Rhonda
could not keep her emotion and got Ian to apologize.
III. Conclusion
Based on the
analysis above, it can be conclude that Indian race in America is not treated
well and tend to be exclude from the society. Although Indian is the origin
inhabitant in America, but they are becoming minority in America continent and
we don’t know till when the condition would be stated.
IV. References
Reitz, Kein (2008). “National Human Rights depend on International
action, Says U.N. Expert. www.lawvirginia.edo/html/news/2008. Accessed on 23th December 2015
Hopefully, this post would inspire and add your knowledge :-)
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