Ethnicity in Hotel Babylon

Ethnicity in Hotel Babylon

In this clip ethnicity is presented as white people being superior to other races of people (black, Asian) and people who are from a different country e.g. polish people. The clip shows illegal immigrants doing jobs that white people wound not want to do for very little money, and the white people doing jobs such as receptionist and getting a fair salary.

 

At the beginning of the clip the police man that is in charge of this raid gets a close up shot of his face to show the audience that he means business and wants to get a result. He also gets the close up of his face to show his expressions and to show the audiences that he be portrayed as the bad guy in this episode. The clothes that the detective is wearing are considered smart with a dark blue jacket and a lighter jumper underneath it. The lighting of the scene is dark because it represents the role of the detective to the audience.

Next the woman working at the reception is white and wearing smart clothing.  She is wearing a white suit because she is a higher rank than most people working for the hotel which means that she can wear what she wants. She could consider herself being better than all the other workers because she has a better job than them and the fact that she is British allows her to be offered roles like this because she is from this country. The way the woman speck is very formal and professional. Also she has make up on and is wearing jewellery which other workers are not allowed to.

Now to the main character in this scene Jackie, she is another worker for the hotel but she is a lower rank to the woman at the reception, she is wearing the uniform for the hotel. When we first see Jackie she is in a dark room at the back of the hotel, next the room does not have a lot of room in it there are files and other thing in there. In the next scene Jackie is seen going into the kitchen of the hotel and telling all the illegal immigrants to follow her in a room and hide, she is specking in a different language which could suggest that she is an immigrant herself but a legal one. The camera is following her as she is running. Next is the camera shot is behind an elevator shaft and shows Jackie and the immigrants running towards the room, this could represent what the immigrants are feeling locked behind bars. The camera then does a close up of Jackie opening the door to the room, she is struggling to open the door because she is a rush to open it and this builds up the tension of the scene. Once they are in the room she locks the door, this could reflect on how the immigrants are feeling as if they are locked in the hotel and can’t go out.

Next you see the immigrant that did not go to the hiding room, because he is doing his cleaning job. This job was given to him because no legal immigrant wanted to do it so that job was given to him and that goes for almost all illegal immigrants they are given jobs that no else wants to do. Ibrahim is his name and he gets caught be the police searching the hotel. The police that catch him are all white and wearing smart clothing, the lighting in that room is normal.

While Ibrahim is being caught a woman in the room faints and another immigrant helps her out because he was a doctor in his country that he was from. This shows that he was an intelligent man in his country, but because he is an illegal immigrant he has to do work that he does not want to do. This shows that some illegal immigrants have to leave their because of some sort of conflict there. All of the immigrants are wearing the hotels uniform; also the lighting in the room is dark.

When Ibrahim is being taken out of the hotel the room is dark and people staying at the hotel are shocked to see what they are seeing. Jackie is trying to persuade the police man not to take him in because of what happened to his brother and farther but he refuses and says that if he doesn’t bring anyone back he will  be killed by his boss. He then says “rules of the game” which could mean that they are not treating this as serious as they should be and also that it happens quite often. The camera is in a close up when the police man says these things; it’s on a close up to show his facial expressions.