I M Not Scared Film Analysis

I'm not scared is set in the fictional town of Aqua Traverse in Southern Italy in the late 1970s. At this era in Italy there was a huge imbalance in the standard of living between the North and South of the country. This prompted a spate of 300 kidnappings in Italy in 1978, carried out by poor southern Italians on children of rich northerners, children like Filippo in I'm not scared. Thus the political backdrop of the film is significant. The main crisis of the film, involving Michele's unwitting embroilment in a catastrophe upon discovering the kidnapped sleep for in a hole in the ground, undoubtedly arises from this aspect of the cultural context.
However, while the political landscape certainly dictates the response of the vast majority of the adult characters in the film, It Doesn't influence the Decisions of Michelle. When faced with the crisis of Sergio’s plot, utterly negates the political dilemma between North and South in favour of his friendship with Filippo.

The third text, Foster by Claire Keegan is in contrast with the other two texts. The child, are protagonist is a …show more content…
Several visuals portray the severe impoverishment of villagers. The buildings are shabby and run down, clustered around an empty dusty courtyard. Cars and trucks are old and ramshackle, trundling along their tracks were the fences are held together with pieces of wire and old scrap. Like the tenement dwellers in The Plough and the stars and the child's biological family in Foster, their world is poor and run down. It is clear that the severe level of the impoverishment triggers the evil kidnapping of Filippo. The adults, like Jack in The Plough and the stars, are trying to escape the destitution in their lives and so resort to conspiracy to alleviate their poverty. And thus, poverty creates crises for Michele through this