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An Essay on the way 'Home Away from Home' uses sounds, visual images and film techniques to create meaning and impact
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Shila M'dian 10 Chatsworth An Essay on the way 'Home Away from Home' uses sounds, visual images and film techniques to create meaning and impact 'Home Away From Home' is a bittersweet film about an African mother of four trapped in a suburban house that longs for her native homeland, so she builds a hut. Those who do not accept the African culture then destroy this hut. This causes the family that were growing apart to grow stronger and work together as a team to fight for who they are. Towards the end, sunflowers are planted. This signifies that there is success. Everything's blooming, and Africa has grown in the garden. Miriam, the mother, works in Heathrow Airport, quite close to where she and the family live. The 'constant passage of aircrafts' heard, seems to only remind Miriam of just how far away she is from her rural family roots back in Africa....
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