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Ghett'a Life

1. My favorite character from the film is Dawn Thompson, the mother of the main character. I'm always more drawn to female characters in anything I watch, so I tend to be more inclined to like and support them. I think she's a really good mom who has always been there for her son and defended him when it was necessary.

2. The previous films we have watched for this course (The Harder They Come and Rockers) both solely focused on a male character that somehow was involved with the music business and also had to navigate through the hardships that  meant being part of the working jamaican class in the 70s. "Ghett'a Life" occuppies a different stage, the boxing world, but the rivalry between different forces, in this case two parties that fight over a street territory, it's still very present. The conflict inside the social classes in Jamaica is very noticeable in all of these films. 

3. The female characters were far better developed than in the previous film we have watched. Dawn is probably the woman who has had more screen time out of everyone. Although her portrayal is more multidimensional and well developed, she's still not the lead character in this story, she's still mostly defined by the male in her life. 

Camille, another important woman in "Ghett'a Life", gets settled with a lesser role just because she's the romantic interest and again falls into the trope of the woman whose main role is to stimulate romantically the main character of the film.


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