Paradise road essay

Before the establishment of the choir, Bruce Beresford strategically emphasises racial differences, rivalry and racial tension. The choir helps to bridge differences and stimulates camaraderie among the women. Beresford shows that beauty, in this case singing, helps to nurture our finer qualities, our sensitivities and bring people together.

Paradise Road portrays people who, when stripped of the status and freedom, discover the power embedded in music. How does the film use music to unite people? Music is defined as “Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion”.

In Paradise Road, a common ground is established through the creation of the vocal orchestra, granting the opportunity for all the women, despite the different backgrounds, to amalgamate as a community. This is important because without each other, the women will not survive.

Shelving their values, the women, like victims of today’s society enter prostitution and servility, hoping to survive their battle to survive. During such tense times people also become very suspicious and wary of each other. The inmates frequently suspect each other of betrayal because of their tenuous situation.