| Display title | Killer of Sheep |
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| Page creator | Robkelk (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 22:10, 11 January 2019 |
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| Date of latest edit | 21:53, 2 October 2020 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Charles Burnett was one of the "LA School" of African American filmmakers that emerged from the UCLA film department in the 1970s, and Killer of Sheep was his thesis film. It is simultaneously naturalistic and poetic, witty and heartbreaking. The story centers on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a blue-collar worker from the Watts area of Los Angeles, whose job in a slaughterhouse barely keeps his family above water. It documents his struggle to retain dignity in the face of grinding deprivation and disquieting temptations, and the alienation that threatens to break him away from his family. It also provides a sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of a community assaulted by poverty and lack of opportunity, yet it manages to remain hopeful. |
