Coming Down the Mountain

How is disability represented using camera work,

editing, mise en scene and sound?
In the extract from Coming Down the Mountain camerawork, editing and
sound is used to construct the representation of disability, in particular
down syndromes, as useless and compared with potatoes. The main
character is narrating talking about how if you changed our chemical
formula we wouldnt be here or we would just be potatoes. We are then
introduced to the setting of a council house and the shot cuts to a tracking
shot of a spoon which becomes close up of his brother. Here the non-
diegetic narration continues to him saying sometimes they do change the
recipe and you get a brother who really is a big potato with eye tentacles.
The effect of this is that people with disabilities are represented as
useless, with no ability to think, like a potato. The effect on the audience
could be that they feel annoyed that he holds this view of disabled people
because it is a stereotype that they are potato like.
Mise en scene and dialogue are used together aspect used to represent
disability, in this instance as childlike. The props used by the disabled
character while he waits at the bus stop and the dialogue that goes on
along with it create this idea of him being childlike. While at the bus stop
he uses childrens toys and his brother narrates about how he cant leave
him anywhere, like a child. The effect of this is that it represents disabled
people as dependent.