Chinese Forktie

Chinese Forktie is the 2001 DepicT! Winner, it was created by Andrew Davies and raises the issue off knife crime. The film is informative for its audience; this is proved by the monologue of the main character that tells us facts and statistics about knife crime.

Andrew Davies who created the film was anti knife crime and the character that as an audience we presume is based on him talks about how he disagrees with violence and fighting. He mentions Scotland this therefore informing us the location/setting of the film.

The film contains no soundtrack and we do not know any characters names however there is experimentation with colouring as everything in the film has block colours with a blue tint.

The genre is not very clear until the shock ending off the protagonist stabbing someone with a fork, it then makes the audience realize that this is a social realism short film.

The camera work is quite simple in the film as it shows a young male walking through the park in a variety of different shots. The monologue brings the story together however it also confuses the audience as the protagonist asks us as an audience a question:
“You know I aint had a fight since junior school?”
This allows the active audience to ask questions back, maybe concerning his mental health as he could be speaking to an authority.
This could also represent the unpredictable outburst with the ending stabbing incident and repetitive use of foul language.

To watch this film go to:

http://www.depict.org/shortlists/winners/# and it is the 2001 DepicT! winner

Referencing:

http://www.depict.org/shortlists/winners/#