Jade Evariste Question 2

JADE EVARISTE

How do you represent a particular social group?

 Pathologist are seen as dark and mysterious which is a stereotype of people who work with dead bodies.

We expanded the stereotype of the pathologists, by making a pathologist the killer we enforce the stereotype and represent  them as mysterious, creepy and someone who they should be weary of.

 By having a black young female as our killer, we break conventional stereotypes.

The stereotype for young girls is that they are obsessed with boys and make-up  some examples are Regina George in Mean Girls and Cher Horowitz in Clueless . By having the female character a killer we strip her of her innocence and make the audience feel sympathetic towards the character, further on in the film you realise that you can't help and that she is psychologically disturbed, we represent that social group as psychologically imbalanced and dangerous which is unconventional for teenage girls.
Using a black character for the role of the killer was unconventional as killers are generally white, by having a black killer we represent the social group as dangerous and suspicious.
We represented the police as hard working as they are constantly trying to figure out who the killer is, also they are represented as a bit dim witted as they sometimes have the suspect but oblivious to the clues infront of them.
We have represented the white British under class as being holagens, and bad parts of society as the killer wants to get rid of all the criminals in Britian. This is a conventional veiw of white British under class which can be seen in 'This is England 86' and 'The Football Factory'.
We represented Suffers of Mental health problems as deranged and emotionless, this is a stereotypical portrayal of mental health suffers which is seen in 'A beautiful mind' and 'Memento'   .