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The Good Life, Color Key: Indigo/Pink/Red: Key concepts connected to…

- - - - As a film adaptation to the book, A Small Place, the effects of materialism are seen once again through the eyes of the tourist. The films emphasis on the destructive tourism on Antigua thematizes the beauty and ugliness of its industry. The materialistic goals of pleasure and money through tourism destroy those of its inhabitants where they are forced to live under a corrupt government or their inability to sustain themselves because of globalization.
      - Filmed through the perspective of the tourist:
        
        situating the audience as the tourist on vacation shows how many people disregard the reality of Jamaica (torn-down schools, buildings, financial and government corruption)
      - Interviews of families:
        
        personal accounts of natives bring more guilt to the audience (as the tourists)
        
        more in-depth understandings of their financial situation and the lack of hope for their government