L03 :understand how the meaning is created in a media product

 

Prey is a horror/action movie that was released recently on Disney+ in 2022.The main setting of the film is spinoff story that no links whatsoever to the main predator story apart from having the predator in the film which keeps it linked to the franchise.

This is a spinoff movie that does not link to the main predator story as it sets itself in the early 19th century in the Great Plains of America where a Comanche girl which  means she is a Native American, Naru, and her dog ,Sarii, witness the predator's spacecraft and believes it to be a thunderbird which is a sign to prove herself as she wishes to prove that she can become a great hunter of her tribe like her elder brother, Tabee. She first truly sees the predator when she is attacked and nearly killed by a grizzly bear in by a river where she witnesses the predator kill the creature however, she does not see its body as its camouflaged want made it visible was the blood of the bear. Most of the movie focuses on her, Sarii, and her brother in a in their cultural aspect in how they are trying to survive and kill the predator one scene that shows this is when Naru and Tabee are captured by the French colonist and tied to a tree as bait for the predator. The film overall is fairly gory as it shows being animals skinned and people being killed in horrific ways by the predator, it also has a bit of mild bad language in the film

unlike most of the females in her tribe Naru is eager to become a hunter no matter what she does not give up easily and she challenges the traditional female roles that were set on her in that time. Another honorable thing to mention about the film is how it focuses on a culture that not really identified in movies or TV shows compared to the likes of British or Japanese culture.