The aspects of the text Secrets and lies, The Castle, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Boy all illustrate and share the significant common theme and ideas that ‘love and pride can conquer all’ and ‘Class differences’ this is expressed throughout these text through the film's ideas, language features, structures and purposes and audiences. Through these text the directors portray the point and share the common suggestion that all families aren't perfect and are dysfunctional and express this idea in different aspects throughout these films, the theme in these films are significant as it allows the audience to relate to the films and find sanctuary making the film more personal to the viewers.
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Cynthia, a factory worker who has a very dysfunctional family and lives in a grimey council house and is a fearful, nervous wreck allows the audience to relate to the movie through Cynthia as she doesn't have the perfect life and has troubles like many people in the real world. Cynthia's daughter Roxanne who is rebellious, foul mouthed which displays how language features can influence the film's theme and makes the movie comedic and relatable for the audience and is always in a bad mood who is constantly pushing her mother away. Cynthia receives a call from from Hortense and is in disbelief after Cynthia hanging up hortense calls again and they agree to meet, when they meet they she discovers that Hortense is her daughter “But sweetheart, I can't be your mother! Why not? Well... look at me!” the two develop a close friendship showing two different classes coming together as Hortense is a successful optometrist and is Cynthia is just a factory worker, living in a council flat through this the director is portraying the message that Cynthia struggles with money, showing …show more content…
There is a connections between both Boy and Gilbert as they are both weighed down by their responsibilities which is more then they both can handle and dream of freedom of some sort. Boy spends most of his time dreaming of michael jackson and creating elaborate stories about his estranged father Alamein who left when Boys mother died giving birth to Rocky and believing that his father will take him away to live in a mansion where they will ride dolphins showing boy's belief that his dad's love could conquer all and get him out of his small isolated town “Kingi: You're a liar, your dad's not overseas, he's in jail for robbery Boy: Shut up Kingi, you don't know Kingi: Yes, he's in the same cell block as my dad.” Gilbert faces the same struggles as his father also ‘left’ like Boys father when things became difficult, like when Arnie was born and when Boys mother died and the fathers left the already struggling families to defend for themselves. One night Boy and his cousins are surprised to find three men show up on the farm, one of them being his father, he makes out that he is back to
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Cynthia, a factory worker who has a very dysfunctional family and lives in a grimey council house and is a fearful, nervous wreck allows the audience to relate to the movie through Cynthia as she doesn't have the perfect life and has troubles like many people in the real world. Cynthia's daughter Roxanne who is rebellious, foul mouthed which displays how language features can influence the film's theme and makes the movie comedic and relatable for the audience and is always in a bad mood who is constantly pushing her mother away. Cynthia receives a call from from Hortense and is in disbelief after Cynthia hanging up hortense calls again and they agree to meet, when they meet they she discovers that Hortense is her daughter “But sweetheart, I can't be your mother! Why not? Well... look at me!” the two develop a close friendship showing two different classes coming together as Hortense is a successful optometrist and is Cynthia is just a factory worker, living in a council flat through this the director is portraying the message that Cynthia struggles with money, showing …show more content…
There is a connections between both Boy and Gilbert as they are both weighed down by their responsibilities which is more then they both can handle and dream of freedom of some sort. Boy spends most of his time dreaming of michael jackson and creating elaborate stories about his estranged father Alamein who left when Boys mother died giving birth to Rocky and believing that his father will take him away to live in a mansion where they will ride dolphins showing boy's belief that his dad's love could conquer all and get him out of his small isolated town “Kingi: You're a liar, your dad's not overseas, he's in jail for robbery Boy: Shut up Kingi, you don't know Kingi: Yes, he's in the same cell block as my dad.” Gilbert faces the same struggles as his father also ‘left’ like Boys father when things became difficult, like when Arnie was born and when Boys mother died and the fathers left the already struggling families to defend for themselves. One night Boy and his cousins are surprised to find three men show up on the farm, one of them being his father, he makes out that he is back to