1.2.1

1) Themes in clip
Peace, love, innocence, rebirth, unity
2) Gender representation
Men have feminine trait of maternal care,
3) Style
Long take - tracking, handheld, gritty, wartorn

Independent films challenge us, makes us think about an idea

Juxtaposition helps us draw attention to the differences

If you take women and their fertility away, they become redundant and men (and some women) become hypermasculine

Julian lost child, she becomes leader of terrorist group, gun toting and hyper masculine

Best way to juxtapose is to split it down the middle  and make a list

Audiences of Hollywood films are different to those of Indie films, they oppose

Children of Men deliberately refuses to get applied to a genre, by not fitting conventions of set genres, but spans across several instead

Cinema verité (documentary) gives realism

Director is Mexican, biased toward immigration, fascist view of immigrants