Short film 3- Chicken a la Carte

Chicken a la Carte is the final short film that I researched and analysed. The subject of the short film is ‘poverty’. At the beginning of the film you observe people eating in a fast food restaurant in China. During their meal, they leave their chicken leftovers on their plates. The camera then focuses on the chicken bones throughout the film as you follow their journey which starts off with a man putting them in his bag from the rubbish bins with various other leftovers. The film then concludes with the man coming home to his family in which you can obviously see that they all live in poverty and he then feeds his family with all the leftovers he has collected. I believe that the intention of Chicken a la Carte is to show us as an audience that in this decade there are still people around the world who live in poverty and have to find food from bins just to survive. The contrasted settings of the short film, from the fast food restaurant to the run down village is the relevant aspect of the film as you see how wasteful the people are in the fast food restaurant, yet you see how happy the family is when the father brings back the leftovers. The soundtrack in the short film is quite sad so it creates sympathy towards the less fortunate who are viewed in the film. Poverty is a cause that needs to be addressed by everyone which means the implied target audience is for anyone who watches it.
Overall, I believe that Chicken a la Carte is a very effective way of showing the realism of people’s lives around the world that live below the poverty line. This is definitely one of my favourite short films that I have watched.