Comparrison Of 'song Song And Little Cat' And 'Bilu And Jauo'

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Stage 1 English Issues in Social Justice Text Response The Invisible Children is an anthology of seven short films relating to child exploitation. I will be comparing Joao and Bilu directed by Katia Lund and set in Brazil to Song Song and Little Cat directed by John Woo and set in China. I will compare the way that each director uses effects such as sound, design, characters, plot and setting. The central theme of Katia Lunds’ Bilu and Joao is poverty. This theme is portrayed through children who wander around the streets all day, every day searching for rubbish to sell. They sell this rubbish so that they can buy bricks to help their family build a house – it’s as if the money they make doesn’t even make an impact. John Woos’ Song Song and Little Cat has a main theme of happiness verses unhappiness and wealth verses poverty. An old man finds an abandoned baby and becomes her ‘grandfather’. When he dies, she has to sell flowers to earn food in an orphanage. Her cheerfulness is contrasted to another, richer girl’s unhappiness. They are linked by a doll discarded by Song Song and found by Little Cat’s grandfather. Throughout Bilu and Joao, there are constant noises such as the sound effects of cans and other metallic sounds, rappers in the market place who echo stories of the lives of people around them, car horns, sirens and busy city noises. The music played during the film includes Spanish guitar and drums, of a jazz and blues style. In contrast, throughout the course of Song Song and Little Cat, the majority of the noise is harmonious and disharmonious piano music. The two films are contrasted in a major way when it comes to sound as Joao and Bilu is full of busy music and city sounds and Song Song and Little cat is full of elegant, melodic piano music. Similarly, Lund and Woo both use two young children as the main characters in their stories. In Bilu

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