FIST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Truancy
Document Summary
Agency institution - ghouls institution as the residential school system and the police force. Agency being the law and there being individual agency. There are the rules of the indigenous people, and they have their own agency. Acting agent - tradition and loss of culture. Rules of the reserve reclamation twin agents of power. Themes - reclaiming something for yourself as you own agent, family as an institution but also the lack of it for the protagonist general being on control and power throughout the film. How protagonist has a similar air of powerful ness to them, using the power in different ways. Style - serious and violent throughout he whole film. Tradition and loss of culture, protagonist and losing her father. Story should focus on getting her agency back. All kinds of twin goin goin on in the film. Protagonist and father have similar ideas yet are completely different in what they want to do.
