Question

Pocahontas:
1. How does the movie reflect its cultural and historical context?

2. To what degree does the movie shed light on common or universal human problems?
3. How does the movie represent or distort socio-cultural reality?

4. Whose story is being told? Who are the main characters and how are the presented?

5. What ideas about socio-cultural life – ideologies, social norms (and/or social deviance), understandings of race and ethnicity – are produced in the film?

Answer 1

if anyone can give me general idea where to go from this, i'd appreciate it !

Answer 2

I don't remember this too clearly (i watched it a long time ago lol), but for #1 I would say that, well Pocahontas has to do with native american tribes and their rituals... so if you think about it, it's really a reflection on native indian rituals and their past. And their culture overall. like how they dress and act and their systems... ;/ idk if that makes sense lol :P

Answer 3

plus its based on a real person.. pocahontas! so that means something! this whole movie is literally based off someone's life! so that is history in itself :)

Answer 4

:) thanks!

Answer 5

and lets see..

#2: not quite sure what it means by degree, but what it sheds on common and universal human problems is this... there's a lot of jealousy and rage that takes place.. plus the main character, pocahontas has trouble discovering her path. she doesn't know what she is destined to do in life and she questions it...

in real life, doesn't everybody question what they're meant to do in life? it's confusing trying to figure out what you want to do in life, but at the end, through life experiences, you can discover what it is that you're meant to do.. like pocohantas did! :)

**pretty sure i'm spelling her name wrong at some points lol :P oh well... :P

Answer 6

#3: I'd say that the movie represents socio-cultural reality.. (all based off opinion of course! haha but in my opinion i think it represents!) so socio-cultural means that it involves both social and cultural factors :) And i definitely think that Pocahontas is pretty much the definition of socio-cultural. In the movie, you see that there are so many social factors. As I said earlier, jealousy and rage are present. That was caused by social aspects of the movie where a relationship sparked jealousy and rage. Love is in the air (i guess you could say that lol) and love is definitely something social! Plus, Pocahontas "communicates" with the willow tree (at least i think it's the willow tree.. well some kind of tree haha) and it helps her to figure out what she wants to do in life.

and of course, culturally, it speaks of the culture of the native americans. the tribal life and how their culture plans planned marriages as in the case of Pocahantas. The Chief is in power (as all chiefs are in indigenous tribes) and he has all the command over their tribe. And all this comes to show how this movie is most definitely socio-cultural :)

idk did that make sense? haha ;P i might have rambled a bit :P

Answer 7

#4: This is the story of Pocahontas, the daughter of the chief, who is supposed to wed someone.. (forgot the name lol) but it was a planned marriage... She is the person whom the story revolves around.

Main characters: Pocahontas-daughter of chief, is very lively, has a great personality, very confused of what she is supposed to do with her life

Chief (something.. well, her dad... haha) - strong and powerful, cares for his daughter but doesn't really know what she wants, can show his anger, but again, is allowed to since he is the head of the tribe!!!

John Smith: Pocahontas's love interest or whatever you call it haha... is part of the problem, is a captain... (don't remember other parts..)

**looked up his name!! Hahah** Kokoum (idk if that is how u spell it tho....) - brave, very serious, arranged marriage to pocahontas, and he is the one who gets jealous and angry.

and i think there are more main characters, but i can't remember!! sorry about that!! :/

Answer 8

#5: hmm looks really similar to #3 lol..

but its basically what i wrote for #3.. but i think you just need to describe in more detail (i gave examples in #3!!!) and social norms would be how in that time, if you were native american especially, arranged marriages were perfectlynormal, just as opposing those marriages were too.. and basically everything about race and culture can be described here :)

hehe and we are done! :) does that answer it all? :D i hope i made sense :P