Sapphire.. (2)

How were black people represented in the film?
- In the film, even the mention that Sapphire was a half cast girl but passed of as white was a shock. They realise this when her brother is coloured. They seem fearful of him and other black people.
Its seems to me when investigating the murder all white people were on the good side of the law, and they were quick to put the blame on other black people, and at the beginning no white person was doing wrong. I feel angered when they speak of Sapphire when it is revealed she is pregnant, this is because they say the investigator says "It could have been anyone's" insinuating that Sapphire had slept around it seems more obvious to him just because she is half cast, she must have slept around.
Also when Sapphire's hidden clothes were found (that were revealing) the landlady says "It was the black under the white" (her tweed skirt) also angered me as she was saying that, the 'black' person in her was the revealing outfits and the dishonesty, but as she passed as white, her 'white' person was kind, honest and the nice girl they all knew.
It shows that they represent black people people who constantly do wrong, but white people are always on the right side of the law, never being dishonest.

How the film puts across collective identity of black British people.
In the beginning of the film it shows that no matter what feeling you have inside, the white people would just judge on the exterior of the colour of your skin.