Tuesday, 17 May 2011
An old movie
A good movie that i saw the other day was "Black Shack Alley." This film is about a young boy, Jose, who lives in the small shack zone near the cane fields with his where his Grandmother Adamantine worked. This film shows how life was for blacks in the Caribbean in the 1930s. It was a rough time fresh out of slavery but blacks still had little to no rights. Both Jose and his grandmother had plans of a promising future for Jose using the education system, one day. It was routine that while his grandmother worked in the fields all day Jose would stay back I the shack areas along with the other children in the area. Within a couple weeks Jose wins a partial scholarship to attend high school in the capital of Fort-de-France. He goes together with his grandmother where she worked as a laundrywoman for the rich whites to pay for school. Jose deals with enormous amount of pressure around him to do good, especially with his professor. He is accused of plagiarism when he writes an essay on the lives of poor blacks. Jose runs away from school, back to his small shack in the city. His professor then pays a visit to his house and tells José that he was wrongly accused, offering an apology and a full scholarship, instead of a ¼ scholarship, and living conditions at the school. The next day when he returns to Black Shack Alley he finds his grandmother lying in her bed motionless and not breathing. This is a crushing loss for José as he was left alone now with no one to take of him or be there for him.
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