'The most Beautiful Man In The World' is a short social realism film. I have chosen this film for my genre analysis as it is clearly a product of the social realism genre I will be working in. This film is classified as social realism because it is telling a realistic story, showing how someone lives and an everyday experience of thier life. That is the core element of social realism, to show what happens everyday. In this case, the film shows the life of a girl. Her life, as shown in the film, seems to be very boring and quite a bad lifestyle. This is shown by the way dialogue and sound is hardly used in it. This shows that nothing is heard because hardly anything is worth hearing.

 

This is also portrayed by the very dull and tiresome colours used through the film, which are not generally seen or associated with England, where it's set. The story shows a relatively extraordinary event take place in the girls life. She meets a man who takes a bug off her shoulder and hands it to her. This, to her, seems incredibly amazing due to having never experienced something like this before. I can learn from this film that the use of sound and colour is very useful in creating an atmosphere to portray the social realism in a film. I will have to investigate this useage when filming and editing my own short social realism film and see how it can benefit what I am trying to portray.

 

The genre for social realism, of which this film is, is heavily represented by the rather depressing nature of the film. However, it also perhaps exagerates, moving away from the social realism nature the film supposedly belongs to, by portraying a field that looks rather foreign and unrealistic. it is not something that would normally be seen and, essentially, the definition of social realism is that it is supposedly meant to be recognisable to the majority of the audience as something that is normally seen and that normally happens. Despite this, social realism films have been known to greatly exagerate these features for the purpose making it more interesting. There are films are exagerate far more than this one; for example, 'Kidulthood'. As a result, 'The Most Beautiful Man In The World' is still of the social realism genre, it just slightly pushes the boundaries of what is most likely familiar to the audience.