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Blog Task: Week 16

The documentary I have chosen to look at for this task is 'Louis Theroux, Law and Disorder in Johannesburg'. The social impact of this documentary is clear, it is a film made to educate about crime and its relation to poverty, specifically within Johannesburg. 

The UN Sustainable Development Goal which underpins this documentary most prevalently is 'No Poverty.' It is a documentary which, on the surface, is about the crime and criminal elements which exist in the South African city of Johannesburg, but it makes very clear that the reason that all of these terrible things exist and thrive within the city of Johannesburg is as a result of the immense poverty which simultaneously exists in and around the city. 

In terms of strategies that the documentary makes use of in order to portray the relationship between crime and poverty, the variety of people who are interviewed is remarkable. Almost every perspective is taken into account and given a significant amount of time to explain the situation and their perspective on the situation. Additionally, the documentary focuses almost entirely on the human element to the story and tries not to focus too much on statistics, as that can have a tendency to dilute the message. The documentary focuses on a small cast of varied characters who all have different things to contribute to help the audience to understand that situation as a whole.

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