Power Of One Themes
The Power of One is a cinematic masterpiece which portrays the evil power of racism through cleverly exploited filmic techniques.
The three segregated groups gathered at a distance from each other within the dusty, sombre compounds of the Johannesburg cemetery, as the unbearable African sun beat upon them. Despite being brought together to mourn the death of a young lady whom all the groups loved, a wide shot of the cemetery reveals the continuing separation of the Zulus, Afrikaans and the English driven by the evil forces of hatred and prejudice.
John G. Avildsen's The Power of One comments on the struggle endured by many in the 19th and 20th centuries in South Africa against the ignorance of racism, named by the white-German colonials (Afrikaners) as the apartheid. Avildsen's intention is to illustrate that the discourse of racism is not only driven by hatred and …show more content…
He is the only Englishman in the Afrikaans boarding school, and consequently is blamed for the treatment of their people by the English military. The Afrikaans are marginalised by their setting, with their dwellings being dully lighted, casting shadows of evil, that is racism, over their faces. The dormitories are open, cold and surrounded by hard floorboards and walls, which are covered with the Nazi swastikas. PK is uncomfortable with his surroundings, being subjected to racism by the elder students, and subsequently becomes a habitual …show more content…
Hitler's racism had the over-awing power to destroy countries, livelihoods and whole races. Therefore the use of the swastika in The Power of One clearly demonstrates the wickedness and power of apartheid, which had the power to segregate a nation and the hopes of many
The three segregated groups gathered at a distance from each other within the dusty, sombre compounds of the Johannesburg cemetery, as the unbearable African sun beat upon them. Despite being brought together to mourn the death of a young lady whom all the groups loved, a wide shot of the cemetery reveals the continuing separation of the Zulus, Afrikaans and the English driven by the evil forces of hatred and prejudice.
John G. Avildsen's The Power of One comments on the struggle endured by many in the 19th and 20th centuries in South Africa against the ignorance of racism, named by the white-German colonials (Afrikaners) as the apartheid. Avildsen's intention is to illustrate that the discourse of racism is not only driven by hatred and …show more content…
He is the only Englishman in the Afrikaans boarding school, and consequently is blamed for the treatment of their people by the English military. The Afrikaans are marginalised by their setting, with their dwellings being dully lighted, casting shadows of evil, that is racism, over their faces. The dormitories are open, cold and surrounded by hard floorboards and walls, which are covered with the Nazi swastikas. PK is uncomfortable with his surroundings, being subjected to racism by the elder students, and subsequently becomes a habitual …show more content…
Hitler's racism had the over-awing power to destroy countries, livelihoods and whole races. Therefore the use of the swastika in The Power of One clearly demonstrates the wickedness and power of apartheid, which had the power to segregate a nation and the hopes of many