Representation of Age and Disability - TV Drama

 

The main scene starts with a mid shot introducing us to young man (Bradley) who starts getting out of  a taxi cab to help Jim out of the taxi. we hear bradley telling his Jim to get hi leg out causing the audience to assume that Jim isn't in a right mind set or isnt capable to get out of the taxi without help, this is still a social norm as most people tend to assume elder people are incapable of doing some things without assistance. we see Jim get out his walking stick as he steps put of the taxi allowing the audience to make assumptions that Jim is a fragile man or has a disability. Bradley then asks Jim if he wants his wheelchair following that Jim says no to using the chair enticing Bradley to insist. we then get a close up shot of Jim clarifying to the audience what the Jim character looks like although the audience weren't shown the character for several seconds an assumption was instantly made on how the character would looked like based on the way the other characters baby coddled the Jim character. Furthermore we hear one of the characters sarcastically ask "still here Jim?", allowing us to assume that the character is possibly in his 70's or 80's.