Social class is an element which is frequently used in films to add value to it. Films are something which is man-made, and in the past, social classes was something which determines how a person may be judged by the society which he/she lives in. Nowadays, this has decreased, however, this is still prevalent in films which talk about events that happened in the past, or which evolve around a historic event.
A very good local film which clearly portrays such classes is The Limestone Cowboy, which was produced in 2017, under the direction of Abigail Mallia. This film is heavily loaded with distinctions between social classes, and with conflicts which occur between people of these different classes. The main conflict occurs between the main character, Karist, which is of a low class, and with his own son, John. Karist is shown clearly as a member of the lower class, from his cowboy costume, his house, which from the outside seems like it forms part of social housing, and the interior which looks relatively poor. Looking at John, from the way he wears, with a polite shirt, the scene at his house, which looks rather like a villa, his convertible car, and the polite way he talks with. Frequently throughout the film, these two characters can be seen in conflict, because Karist is living in the cowboy story that his father told him when he was a young boy, and John keeps trying to stop him because he was getting embarrassed. This conflict kept escalating to the stage where John reports his father to a mental hospital stating him as a crazy man, which was the way society was judging him.
A small comment from this is that the film viewer is advantaged over John, since the film continuously gives contextual background of what went on during Karist's childhood. The film tells the viewer that Karist used to spend lots of time with his dad, but he lost him at a very young age, and he seems to have been stuck living the cowboy story.
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