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By Hassan

he American dream is that anyone can be successful by working hard and taking opportunities no matter who they are. However, the USA can’t be successful because of the lack of opportunities and development. The wealth inequality between the wealthy and those in poverty has dramatically increased over time. Undoubtedly America dream is hopeless for many Americans. Alex Gibney expertly utilizes documentary conventions to create the idea that the American dream is now unachievable to the huge majority of Americans. Alex Gibney accomplishes his mission by exploring wealth inequality which conveys the divide between the wealthy and those in poverty, and wealth distribution level and explanation of the wealth distribution, tax policy how rich use the tax system to maintain their wealth.

During the documentary Park Avenue Money Power and the American Dream, Alex Gibney presents the idea that the American Dream is now unattainable to the vast majority of Americans because of the growing inequality of wealth, especially in Park Avenue. To attain this argument Alex Gibney applies a range of documentary conventions to position the audience to agree with his opinion. This convention includes the use of juxtaposition between the wealthy and poor and montages with symbolism.

 The director uses symbolism for the audience to see how rich people are including expensive automobiles and doormen. He also uses a soundtrack for the wealthy people and then the director juxtaposes with poor people poverty people suffering. Such as when Alex Gibney shows us police siren many poor people on the streets looking for food.

  Alex Gibney sharp use of symbolism, juxtaposition, and sound positioned the audience to realize that the American dream is extremely tough because millions of Americans are struggling to put meals on the desk with their minimum wage jobs while the rich people are earning more money These conventions combined allow Alex Gibney to show what all the American dream was about. However, he highlights how the American dream is impossible because of the growing unfairness of wealth, especially on Park Avenue.

The documentary Park Avenue Money and Power and the American Dream Alex Gibney positions the audience that the American dream is unmanageable because of the wealth distribution happening in Park Avenue.

To succeed in this argument Alex Gibney displays the audience a range of documentary to agree with his opinion. And the conventions are symbolism, animations and montage in particular when the poor people are lined up for food and many of them using transport. Also, the director uses an animation such as data and graphs to demonstrate how the American Dream is unachievable because America lacks most of their advanced democracy.

The director Alex Gibney uses symbolism and interview for the audience to tell that the American dream is hard to achieve because people are not sharing their money. Tim Noah mentions that the mobility of Americans lacks most of their advanced industrial democracy.

Because of Alex Gibney sharp use of these conventions’ symbolism and interview indicates that his main idea of how the poor people in America are going to suffer a lot was accurate.

Theses convention has allowed the director Alex Gibney to have the benefit of positioning the audience on how the American dream is essentially difficult and impossible because of rich people being greedy and selfish to those in poverty.

In the Documentary Park Avenue Money Power and the American Dream Alex Gibney emphasises  that the American dream is now unimaginable to full-size the majority of Americans because of the rich people using  tax code to Preserve their wealth which is extremely unfair for the poor people who are struggling just to put food on the table.

For the arguments to be successful Alex Gibney display the target market quite a number documentary to agree with his opinion. The conventions that was used are still image, Animations and sound because it shows an image of tax form and a lot money shown on the screen and data.

For this scene Alex Gibney provides the audience to know how wealthy people are selfish and uncaring. The poor people get higher tax and the rich people get lower and lower tax they even end up paying less than most

Of the people who can’t afford it in the first place. Alex Gibney used still image and revealed an image of a tax form on the screen he also used sound a powerful music, big spender to highlight how rich people are. The director uses Animation for the audience to understand how rich people have a lot money and not caring about people that are suffering.