Elza

 The film Elza is a story about a young woman who decides to leave her home in Paris and travel to her native home in the Caribbean on the island of Guadeloupe. Her main dream and goal are to find her father who had left her when she was only a girl. Elza soon realizes that her father is a wealthy businessman who lives in a large mansion with his wife, daughter, son in law, and his granddaughter. Elza got caught spying on the family one day and made up a lie that she is going to nanny the granddaughter. Elza does not say anything and is hired as a full-time nanny for the family. It takes Elza a lot of courage to tell her father that she is one of his daughters. I can imagine how difficult this is for Elza to do. When she finally gains enough courage to tell her father he says "with your kinky hair, you couldn't be my daughter" (Elza). This examines a prejudice about the types of hair in the Caribbean islands. This could possibly be seen as a social class status. Many of the Caribbean islands have prejudice about light skin vs. dark-skinned individuals. As an individual who has traveled all this way in order to find her father and her father denies her it must be heartbreaking. I believe the film was put together very well to show the Caribbean islands while discussing possible prejudices within the islands.  

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