A man who delivers

For mine I watched a documentary called A Man Who Delivers, A day in the life of a London cocaine dealer. The documentary is a representation of how the life of an everyday cocaine dealer is affected as the result of his job. This documentary was rather odd because it was not what you normally come across in the modern day documentary. You hear the voice of an actor, who is simply restating what was being stated in the interview, to keep the dealer safe. The text that we were assigned talked about the modern documentary as being rather visual, with many interviews or pictures. It spoke about how some of the smallest things can be symbolic. One thing that I noticed in this video was that there was never a person in the shot. In the whole film, the visual of the film had switched between a clock, a car driving through the streets of a day/night city, and the “actual” text messages between the dealer and other people. Those were all that were displayed for the audience and thus have significance in how we react to the documentary. The hour displayed on the digital clock changes as the subject at hand changed. This gave the allusion that the dealer’s day was very focused on being a dealer. Which was why, even though the hours changed on the digital clock, the act of driving the car never left the screen. The documentary early on stated that the text messages displayed on the screen were a real. With relation to the consistent driving, the text messages displayed the dealer’s messages as a mix between business and social life. As the documentary continued and the time of the digital clock drifted into life, the text messages that were sent to the dealer from his girlfriend helped to solidify the break between the dealers social and business life due to cocaine. I know that the documentary was done right because you understand the theme that was being portrayed early on. The cocaine dealer states early on that the country is in a recession, and he deals cocaine so that he can feed his children. By stating this early on, the everyday citizen can relate to him. This means that the documentary was made for the current generation of people. I know this because the book states that a documentary can be relative to the time period that it exists. In 20 years, the country could be in a deep recession or could be flourishing. Thus the meaning of this documentary is purely subjective to the people watching it.