Representation

 Representation Analysis: Slice-Of-Life Cinema

What Slice-Of-Life Aims to Represent

Slice-Of-Life Films represent ordinary everyday human experiences like daily routines, bad habits, relationships and social environments. The focus of this type of genre is more reliant on authenticity, observation and emotional truth meaning that representation in these genre isn't about what happens rather it is how lived experience is framed.


 Good Representation In A Slice-Of-Life Film

1. Characters are normal, not symbolic

2. Characters are allowed to be boring, contradictory, kind, shy, or funny

3. No one pauses to explain traditions or habits to the camera

4. Language, Food, routines just exist

5. Real life doesn't stop to contextualize itself


Examples:

"Lady Bird" (2017)


"Columbus" (2017)


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