The changing social, political and cultural climate of
The film pressure focuses on in particular. It is set in those times and is done to show the growing change and up and coming power that black people of all ages are starting to have and how it affects the rest of the country. The characters that are involved in the movie are young ones growing up and minority groups of this day and age especially black people are the audience that they try to acknowledge because they can relate to the characters.
It focuses on the particular racist culture that seems to be sweeping the nation at the time the discrimination through housing, police and employment all play significant roles in undermining what really went on back in those days. It is basically a much more extreme version of what some ethnic monitories still face today.
In the film burning illusion you can tell the film was on a tight budget but in having limits on the props and quality things in the movie itself it helps symbolizes the struggle for money that the young black minority had to face in those days.
The diversions of class in cultures are also used to significant affect in burning illusions.
What you consider high class back in those days like classical music, fine wine and opera theatre are displayed and mixed with the low class culture such as stealing, poverty and sticking together you would associate with the people at the bottom of society which the black people were at the time.
