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Fire at Sea

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Fire at Sea is a 2016 film from Italy, directed by Gianfranco Rosi.It is set on Lampedusa Island, a little flyspeck of land belonging to Italy but only 113 km away from the African coast (Tunisia, specifically). Much of the film follows the adventures of a 12-year-old boy named Samuele, who does the kind of things you'd expect a 12-year-old boy on an island to do, like go on his dad's fishing boat or make his own slingshot. Samuele's happy young life is contrasted with something else happening on Lampedusa: namely, the European migrant crisis. Lampedusa, being part of Italy and thus the European Union but also being so close to Africa, is a major entry point for waves of refugees from sub-Saharan Africa. They take to the waters of the Mediterranean Sea on rickety, overloaded boats, making a dangerous journey that often involves either people dying of dehydration or people dying when their boats sink.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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 Gratuitous English
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 Gratuitous English: Samuele's grasp of English is certainly better than a typical American child's grasp of Italian, but it's still funny when his English homework involves him reading a story about Christopher Columbus in a near-unintelligible accent, or when he and his teacher both manage to turn words like "shocked" into two syllables.
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 Coincidental Broadcast
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 Coincidental Broadcast: As Samuele's grandma chops tomatoes in the kitchen, the radio broadcasts a report about the dead bodies of refugees being retrieved from the Mediterranean.
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 Brats with Slingshots
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 Brats with Slingshots: A long sequence involves Samuele and his buddy making slingshots from tree branches, and then testing out their slingshots by taking target practice against cacti.
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 Contrast Montage
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 Contrast Montage: Effectively the whole film is this, contrasting Samuele's happy-go-lucky life on the island with the terrible suffering of the African refugees who arrive there.
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