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As It Is in Heaven: Rural and Urban Cultures Analysis
The movie plot was organized in different scenes. Clashing at the start of the movie; the first
scene indicates the economic nature from the rural area while the other one shows a social and
economic ability of urban cultures. The ideal difference between the scenes is that both the young boy
from a rural area and the artist from the urban area use their ability to earn a living. Despite the fact
that the culture sequence used in the two films pertaining to rural and urban cultures is evident from the
depiction at the start of the film. There is limited likelihood engulfing urban and rural cultures, while
analyzing the story behind the film (As It Is in Heaven).
As It Is in Heaven is a film produced by Kay Pollak in 2005. The film indicates the similarity
between planning as well as other cultural issue revealing the traits that exist between specific rural and
urban cultures. However, the film later shows the differences between the two cultures at the end of the
film. The ideal reason for the comparison was to indicate negative and positive impacts of
urbanization, giving the film a central theme: Urbanization. The film highlights the joint effect of the
people and their cultures. Kay tried to show the significance issues in planning concerning both
cultures that pose unique characteristics. He also showed the roles of the community and the people
concerning the longitudinal difference between the urban and rural area. Indicating more advantages
that the rural cultures offer as compared to the urban cultures: the cultural understanding of the two
cultures was also worth mentioning. Individual and community cultures regarding the two cultures is
presented and explained clearly all through the movie. The start of the movie shows the preserving

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cultures of a professional who left the rural area despite the fact that the community requested him not
to do so.
The relocation to the urban cultures was cemented with his character of trying to safeguard
economic gains as for the case of Manhattan and to share the perceived relationship of urban cultures.
The urban area is indicated to have various impacts to the life of many hence catalyzing relocation of
people to urban cultures. The magnitude of the impact that the community provides regarding urban
cultures explains the role that culture derives regarding the nature as well as other issue pertaining to
planning of the cultures. Despite the fact that unmanaged impacts congregate in the urban area as
indicated by the community supporting the cultures, the same in magnitude, but less destroying in
reflected in the rural cultures. The difference in the culture of the people in the rural and urban area
carries the weight why urban and rural cultures are different, but one cannot survive without the other.
Evident in the film is that individual relationships that are created and the nature amid the
community in the film is different from the real communal relationship in rural cultures. In addition, it
is clear that the relationship between the people and the cultures showcases the effect of the cultures
and the community. The communities living in urban and rural cultures are easily distinguished via the
nature of people that it generates, however, the density of the communal cultures on a broader scale is
not as determining as the qualities of each. The film indicates the great and fast effect capabilities of
the urban cultures as well as the community by permitting that characters relocation since he was
offered a long-term Job. Similarly the rural cultures on the same scale bring the character into a variety
of contemporary things to select and enjoy such a music leaving him into a dilemma.
Via a more relaxed and soppy approach, the impacts associated between the rural cultures and
impacts on the life of the character to his death. As indicated in the film, the producer (Kay) shows that
the urban cultures have more capabilities of producing a great magnitude at a higher speed because of
the influence of the people in the urban area, but its power also has negative cultures to both the urban

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and rural cultures. The producer compares such cultures as concludes that the rural setting is much
better than urban setting in avoiding such obstructions of nature. The relaxed relationship between
people in rural and urban cultures call for future negotiations in order to avoid cultures. The
relationship between the community and the cultures is of much significance in regards to the planning
issue on broad and personal level. In various cases, for example, that of Manhattan in New York, the
city is a home to various homeless people. People are living in poor conditions such as staying in
leaking houses without security, an apparent negative impact, .. More than 200,000 people in Rio
are homeless, 60 percent of the population are children." In Manhattan, the number of homeless
dwellers has increased over the past decade to more than one million people in the famous Manhattan
housing. In addition, the number of people migrating from rural to urban cultures has also increased,
increasing the urban density to 10 people per square meters. Such changes in the cultures have
adversely affected the relationship between the community and the cultures.
A planning issues in both cities are similar to that in As It Is in Heaven. The rural cultures offer
an apparent concern to planners as the urban cultures. However, the rural area has different codes;
simple as compared to that needed in the urban community as indicated in As It Is in Heaven. As
compared to real case examples, like that of Manhattan in New York, the urban cultures come with
various challenges to engineers and other urban planners due to the population density and the citys
expectations. Different outstanding infrastructure in urban areas explains the difference in planning
issues explain by the Kay in As It Is in Heaven. It is evident from the film that the freedom of dwelling
in urban areas poses challenges to planners similarly to urban cultures. Contrary, the freedom for living
in rural cultures is enjoyed as compared to urban cultures due to lower population density.
In conclusion, the film As It Is in Heaven investigates the community, offering a story of how
the cultures determines our planning fate. An understanding of the rural and urban cultures and the

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communities is a key facet for planning. Proper planning is a gateway to prosperous and efficient
societal dreams. The film As It Is in Heaven is more than a factious story.

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Works Cited
As It Is in Heaven . Dir. Kay Pollak. 2005. Lobar Films .
Zukin, Sharon. The Cultures of Cities. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.