Prescribed: Justice Game - cases Diana and the Dock, Michael X on Death Row
Related: Bowling for columbine (2003)
2009: Analyse the ways conflicting perspectives generate diverse and provocative insights. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. (20 marks)
While composers may present diverse viewpoints, their foremost intention is to influence a subjective response to an objective reality. When driven by this motive, it is natural to expect the rise of insightful yet contentious opinions and outlooks. This correlated Oscar wilde Geoffrey Robertson’s nonfiction account of the “Michael X on Death row” and “Diana on the Dock” trials in Justice Game, along with the documentary Bowling for Columbine (2003) directed by Michael Moore, explores the enduring concerns of violence in a gun controlled America. Both Robertson and Moore consider the act of different representations of events, personalities and situations to ultimately impose their own beliefs to underline the nature of conflicting perspectives.
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The metaphor of the “soul on ice” demonstrates Robertson’s proactive into the extent to which Michael was wrongly misrepresented by the media as a cold and ruthless dictator. Also, using starkly contrasting diction in close proximity allows Robertson to juxtapose the opinion of Darcus Howe who claimed Michael X “made no impact on anybody” to that of his own conflicting assertion when admits in a poignant tone that “he made an impact on me…” Robertson provides evidence to garner sympathy from responders and employs emotive descriptions of Michael X’s vulnerable, physical state in prison: “his brow furrowed, .. [with] fear and pleading in his