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What are the main themes highlighted in the film Killer of Sheep?
Killer of sheep is an American drama film written, shot and directed by Burnett. The drama depicts the culture of urban African-Americans in Los Angeles' Watts district. The film involves neo-realism and is much debated about due to the sensitivity of its theme. The film “tenderly recounts a few days in the life of a slaughterhouse worker, Stan whose existence is as bounded by invisible threads of hopelessness as that of the sheep that he is forced to kill each day”. In addition to being selected as one of America’s fifty most culturally significant films, the film was named one of the “100 Most Influential Films of All Time” by the National Society of Film and gained critical acclaim in Europe. It broadened the spiritual horizon of cinema, which is why it became one of the most significant films of the time by changing the entire face of cinema. It poses many self-reflective questions upon humankind, making it one of its kind, especially by laying focus on the occurrences during World War II.