the opening of the film starts with a black screen with gunshots in the background this could be used to show mystery or to show the normality of shootings and violence in the area. it then pans down form a plane to a mid shot of a stop sign and then zooms into it. the stop sign acts as a message to STOP violence and shootings. It then cuts to an establishing shot with the poor neighbourhood in the background and a group of children crossing the road the establishing shot is used to show the audience that these children are in a dangerous place. they use the image of the children to show the vulnerability of them and to make the audience fell sorry or scared for the children.
The film cuts to a classroom where the teacher is white and teaching a prominently black class. This uses Levi Straus's idea of binary opposites to show a divide in society. also the teacher is always taller than the student in every shot and is always standing up this shows that the white teacher is better than the students and has power over them.
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