The Price Of Sugar Film Analysis
As I watched “The Price of Sugar”, it became very clear that the situation of the inhabitants of Haiti and the Dominican Republic could easily be related to the concepts of Enrique Dussel with regards to his notion of social sin. Due to the extreme poverty levels of the population of both countries, the people living there are easily taken advantage of and become instrumentalized by those higher in power.
Furthermore, the powerful members of society are also able strip the dignity from these people by means of how desperate each family really is. Through many of the acts seen in the movie, I found that “The
Price of Sugar” strongly reflected the beliefs and ideas introduced by
Enrique Dussel.
To start, a prominent aspect of Dussel’s “Eclipse of …show more content…
Domination (beating or killing) and despoilation (stealing of freedom, property, etc.) are the two most common ways of completing this.
The angle to Dussel’s theory involving the negation of the dignity of another person is also shown a number of times during the movie.
Obviously, the people of Haiti are having some form of their dignity taken away from them as the viewers are told that each worker, before crossing the border, has his/her identification taken away so that he/she will not be able to find another job other than the one at the plantation after crossing. Moreover, at the end of the day, all the workers must stay in a very small residence containing 60-100 other workers, which is guarded at all times to prevent anyone from escaping. The audience can clearly understand that through illegalizing the workers before entering the plantations as well as abolishing their freedom, the batey workers are completely dismissed of all dignity.
As a result of all the strong and shocking realities shown in the movie “The Price of Sugar”, I discovered a very noticeable connection between situations described in the movie and Enrique Dussel’s
Furthermore, the powerful members of society are also able strip the dignity from these people by means of how desperate each family really is. Through many of the acts seen in the movie, I found that “The
Price of Sugar” strongly reflected the beliefs and ideas introduced by
Enrique Dussel.
To start, a prominent aspect of Dussel’s “Eclipse of …show more content…
Domination (beating or killing) and despoilation (stealing of freedom, property, etc.) are the two most common ways of completing this.
The angle to Dussel’s theory involving the negation of the dignity of another person is also shown a number of times during the movie.
Obviously, the people of Haiti are having some form of their dignity taken away from them as the viewers are told that each worker, before crossing the border, has his/her identification taken away so that he/she will not be able to find another job other than the one at the plantation after crossing. Moreover, at the end of the day, all the workers must stay in a very small residence containing 60-100 other workers, which is guarded at all times to prevent anyone from escaping. The audience can clearly understand that through illegalizing the workers before entering the plantations as well as abolishing their freedom, the batey workers are completely dismissed of all dignity.
As a result of all the strong and shocking realities shown in the movie “The Price of Sugar”, I discovered a very noticeable connection between situations described in the movie and Enrique Dussel’s