The two men,
who are shooting a film €˜€˜about
food stamps for the county move away after Granny comes
outside, but they
continue filming anyway as they have no respect for her wish to be left
alone.
As the grandchildren play outside, they notice the filmmakers,
who
have been moving around and then enter the property of the Cains. After
Granny comes outside one
of the men asks her if she minds if they "shoot a
bit around here?"
"I do indeed," said
Granny with no smile. Smilin man was
smiling up a storm....But he didn't seem
to have another word to say, so he and the camera man
backed on out the yard,
but you could hear the camera buzzin still. "Suppose you just shut
that
machine off," said Granny, real low through her teeth, and took a step down
the
porch....
Then, the man with the
camera points the camera
directly at her and says, "Now, Aunty...." This use
of the term "Aunty" is
meant to be a respectful address to an older
African-American, but it is still patronizing.
Clearly, then, the men are
disrespectful to Granny as they pretend to be friendly and polite,
but they
completely disregard her wishes that they not trespass upon the Cain property and
not
treat them as objects to be photographed.
And, as further
evidence of their disrespect,
these men sneak behind Granddaddy Cain when he
returns from having captured a chicken hawk and
"buzz him" with the camera.
Finally, it is not until Mr. Cain overpowers them with his
threatening size
and seizes the camera, breaking it apart and saying, "This is our own
place"
that the men depart.
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