Director's Style and Society

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This paper looks at two specific films and their subsequent comments upon society. Firstly, it describes "Lucia" by Solas, to analyze the director's comments upon social constructs and identity. Secondly, it examines Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" in comparison to "Lucia" to address similarities in issues between these two directors. "

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"Humberto Solas' Lucia is multiple narrative film, detailing the lives of three separate women during revolutions, who all are named Lucia. Solas' commentary regarding social class is clearly evident through his selection of the women in each vignette, as one has an upper-class standing, another middle-class, and finally a working class representative. Clips from each of the three Lucia's highlight various aspects of this director's style, commenting upon the constructs of culture, identity, and belief systems formed by social concepts. In the end of the first scene, there is an unmistakable indication of how society's social construction leads to individual identity. In its close, Lucia stabs Rafael to death, and as her personal self has been conquered by these events, is lost to her madness. Taylor eloquently writes "Lucia's madness at the end symbolizes further the powerful and ..."

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