Killer Of Sheep And Felicia Analysis

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Killer of Sheep and Felicia both feature long takes of trains moving through the dilapidated neighborhood of Watts. These scenes are encapsulations of how these films treat realisim. Felcia uses it to juxtapose industry with residential life, and little else. Killer of Sheep mounts the camera on the train as the kids of neighborhood pour over the dust laden hills towards the freight that gives them a livable life. Indeed, this train contains the titular sheep that the primary father makes a life slaughtering. Even more so, the sheep are crosscut with the children, and the fleeting lives of the sheep, all running towards an abattoir where they are stripped of their bodies for profit and survival of another, is a chilling metaphor for lives