The Farewell: representation — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
The Farewell: representation
The Farewell
What you need to know
Cultures: Chinese and American values, the individual and the family, and the 'good lie'.
Gender: the women of the family (Billi, her mother, Nai Nai).
Age: Nai Nai and the generations.
Ethnicity and identity: Billi between two cultures; how film form and context shape each representation.
A worked answer to a practice Section B question on representation, part by part: the short parts that ask you to identify and explain, and the 15-mark final part on a key sequence.
How to answer each part: the marks, and what the short identify and explain parts need as well as the extended answer, since naming a technique instead of a specific example from the film loses marks there. Practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
Quote only short lines of dialogue you're sure of, a few words at a time, and base every point on what happens in the finished film.
