Opening Scene - Mise-En-Scene

Question 1

What is the performance of the chicken?

Answer 1

Fearful, heavy breathing appearance
= Natural instinct to run

Question 2

What was the chicken wearing?

Answer 2

A tie on the foot

Question 3

What could the chicken symbolise?

Answer 3

The chickens fate is inevitably death, could represent the population

Question 4

How is the chicken’s freedom an illusion?

Answer 4

It may try to fly but it cant get very far

Question 5

How is the chicken’s freedom reinforced?

Answer 5

“In the City of God, if you run away they get you, if you stay they get you”

Question 6

What do the cool blues of the 1980s juxtapose?

Answer 6

The warm orange hues of the 1960s

Question 7

What could the warm hues represent?

Answer 7

Life was better then

Question 8

How is the setting like in the 1980s?

Answer 8

• Cramped and narrow streets confined by apartment blocks
• Tin roofed shacks
• Graffitied walls

Question 9

How is poverty amongst children shown?

Answer 9

Small clothing, barefoot, shirtless, guns

Question 10

What does the setting in the 1980s mean?

Answer 10

People are used to it, normal to them