Ashes to ashes is about a character being sent back in time. She has been sent to the time where females are belittled and seen as the weaker sex, the director achieves to show us this by using camera angles, close ups shots, medium shots, long shots and editing.
The original time she is democratic, everyone is seen as equal, but profession females also have high power and high authority. The main character is shown from the first shot that her job gives her great power. The first shot is of her and of a girl which we quickly discover that she is the daughter of the woman.from the conversation we can tell that she is a divorcee, as she inquires about her daughters father. When she gets a call from work, we get the idea that she works for the police/ goverment, and from the way she responds to the call we could assume that her job is very important to her, which also could be the reason for the divorce. Yet we can also know that the woman does care for her daughter greatly, as we the her worry about her daughter when she is told that she is needed.
We she is told she is needed, using the dialogue the director tell us the woman is talked with great respect. Also when she is doing her job and starts talking to the criminal, the director uses a high angle when see her, but we see the criminal through a Normal medium shot, the high angle shots show that this female is high in the hierarchy of her job. This is confirmed when we see her identification card, showing that she works for the government.
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