A short film analysis of "Blood and Chips", an original UK film.

1. Blood and
Chips
Analysis

2. • The short film begins with an establishing shot of where the first scene is, a
Fish and Chips shop named Little wonder Café, which looks like South
London. The owner of the shop is a man of an Asian background, but
clearly a British Citizen due to his accent. This is common in London, due to
how multi-cultural and diverse the city is; but the decoration of the shop
would be resembled to a Chinese or oriental restaurant which is a
stereotype, but they are challenging stereotypes instead of conforming to
them. Then the camera does a close-up of a sweating black male, who has
two younger mix-raced male children with him; which are most likely his
children if we follow the stereotypes of mix-raced children mainly having a
black Father. The black male accidentally bumps into a typical
representation of a white male and apologises, the white male angrily
stares at the black male walking out and approaches the counter of the
shop.

3. • The white male then rudely drops his money on the counter and asks for
chips and a batter sausage in an arrogant manner. This conforms to the
stereotype of white males and then the young kids start messing around
making noise. Suddenly another white male, who seems more like a
criminal from his tattoo of a spider on his neck and how he is wearing
only a white tells the young kids to shut up. The typical white male then
praises his effective way of shutting the kids up and the white male with
the tattoo responds by saying how someone's got to keep the animals in
line. Whilst the male in the vest is reading the sun, the typical white male
sits down with him and thinks they are on the same page by referring to
their neighbourhood as dogs. The male reading the sun doesn’t
acknowledge what he is saying so he pays no attention to him. The typical
white scrunches up an empty cigarette box which suggests he suffers
from a lot of stress. He looks at the Asian decorations in the shop and the
camera does a P.O.V shot to show that its getting under his skin.

4. • The typical white male mentions to the male in the vest that fish and chips
shouldn’t be run by an Asian male, it should be an English traditional run shop.
The Asian male overhears him and asks him whether he wants his food opened
or wrapped, so that he would know he is listening to what he is saying. The
typical white male then turns to the young children and says to the other white
that he wonders if they came out the jungle that colour and mentions that
their father must be a rapist because any decent white women wouldn’t go
near a black male. The white male sarcastically laughs and then the children
ask him to get a movie to watch and say please dad. Then typical white is
shocked as the other white male responds to them to get a movie their mother
would like and no blood. He tells to go and say good bye to Albert the Asian
male, they leave and the other white male whispers to Albert. The typical
white male is scared and runs out the shop bumping into the black man. They
shout don’t forget your chips mate and laugh, this short film deals with even
though London is diverse and multicultural, there is still stereotypes and racism
in the city and it shows that its better to not act on racism with violence but be
the bigger and moral person.