Society is faced with various problems that hinder the development of its communities. These issues affect the society in a numerous of ways and has a major effect on the citizens of the community as well. Social adversities causes grief and is also the cause of crimes and other miscellaneous activities that occur in inequitable areas. In the film, Fruitvale Station, there are abundant amounts of these adversities and societal issues that are illustrated. Fruitvale Station is a great example of a film that shows accurate social issues that occur in today’s society. The movie demonstrates issues of inequality, racial prejudice, gang involvement and also unemployment. It also shows how the people who are forced to live with these issues, fight for survival to maintain to see another day. Fruitvale Station is based on the true story of a young man named Oscar Grant III, who is murdered due to existing social issues such as racism. The movie displays the young man’s daily activities from waking up and getting his daughter ready for school, taking his girlfriend to work, celebrating his mother’s birthday and finally to the time at which he loses his life due to misjudgment of his character. Majority of the social issues shown throughout the film are based on the character of Oscar Grant. He is a young unemployed African-American man, who has recently been released from prison. Oscar suffers from social issues due to his past and is forced to live with the choices that he made when he was younger. The first social issue portrayed through the film is racial inequality. The audience witnesses the inequality in the film when justice is not properly served to the police officer who executed Oscar Grant. As shown through the film, the ind... ... middle of paper ... ... being a story of an actual person in society who has gone through these adversities, makes the claims provided in the film reliable and trustworthy. Works Cited DeLisi, Matt., Mark T. Berg, and Andy Hochstetler. “Gang Members, Career Criminals and Prison Violence: Further Specification of the Importation Model of Inmate Behavior.” Criminal Justice Scholars 17.4 (2004): 369-83. ProQuest. Web. 12 Apr. 2014. Faith Advocates for Jobs. “Jobs Harder to Find for Ex-Offenders.” Faith Advocates for Jobs. n.p., 6 Jul.2012. Web. 12 Apr. 2014. Schofelt, Christine. “Fruitvale Station tells the story of Oscar Grant III.” World Socialist Website. The International Committee of the Fourth International, 31 Jul. 2013. Web. 11 Apr. 2014. Scott, A.O. “A New Year, and a Last Day Alive.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 Jul. 2013. Web. 11 Apr. 2014.
Crash is a movie that had several detailed events of sociological concepts. The movie Crash showed that everyone created has good intentions and good hearts but unfortunately they may grow up and learn the prejudices of the world. "Crash" is a movie that brings out racial stereotypes; as the movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a diverse race of every nationality. The movie starts off with several people being involved in a car accident. We are then taken back to the day before the crash, where we are shown the lives of many of the characters, and the difficulties they may encounter during that day. An LAPD cop is trying to get medical help for his father, but he is having problems with an African American receptionist who won't give his father permission to see another doctor. He in then turns around and takes out his anger on a black couple during a routine traffic stop. A socialite and District Attorney are carjacked at gunpoint by two black teenagers. The socialite takes out her anger on a Hispanic man who is changing the door locks to their home. After the Hispanic man leaves he is robbed of his dignity by a Persian store-owner.
Spike Lee is brand name when it comes to the film industry. When you try to ask any group of people their opinion about this man, you will probably receive numerous positive responses from the film community as well as the African American community. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) is a film that illustrates how racial conflict can become a reality while showing the repercussions that come with racial segregation. Spike Lee uses a number of tools to write and produce the film in order to ensure the message reaches his intended audience in the best way possible. The use of location, soundtrack, and dialogue is abundant in this film. Therefore, this film analysis paper is for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989). It is a film in which racial segregation ignites riots in a neighborhood dominated by the black population. The heightened scene of this film analysis is where Spike Lee throws a trash can and it is from this that hell breaks loose and riots begin.
The movie Crash follows the lives of several different people living in Los Angeles within a two day span. Each character faces different conflicts in their daily life majority of them being caused by racism. The characters of the movie all have separate stories, but each story will connect them with another person in the movie. Some people are discriminated against because of their race but also say racially insensitive comments towards another person in the movie. The main issue explored in Crash is the racism people deal with in their day to day life. Almost every character is either a victim to racism or prejudiced.
The representation of race, in particular the issue of slavery and abolition in film is not only a highly emotive and potentially divisive subject but it also provides a means of accessing the past in a manner which is empowering and knowledgeably rewarding for the viewer. Representations of historical contexts in film are often critically considered to be amongst the main source of the general publics perceptions of the historic past. “When slave narratives are done on film, they tend to be historical with a capital H, with an arm’s-length quality to them. I wanted to break that history-under-glass aspect, I wanted to throw a rock through that glass and shatter it for all times, and take you into it.”1 Following the unlikely duo of a white German bounty hunter, Dr. King, and his black slave counterpart, Django Freeman, as they journey to reclaim the token damsel in distress, film director Quentin Tarantino sparked mass controversy surround the representation of African Americans and slavery in the south of America during the 19th century. The issue of race and slavery are directly confronted within the film told through the narrative of Django. Django Unchained is ultimately a story of white redemption; offering an interpretation into the justifications of slavery while race is represented in ways which both challenge and enforce stereotypes.
The Birth of a Nation (1915) is one of the most controversial movies ever made in Hollywood, some people even consider it the most controversial movie in the long history of Hollywood. Birth of a Nation focuses on the Stoneman family and their friendship with the Cameron’s which is put into question due to the Civil War, and both families being on different sides. The whole dysfunction between the families is carried out through important political events such as: Lincoln’s assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Kan. D.W. Griffith is the director of the movie, and him being born into a confederate family in the South, the movie portrays the South as noble and righteous men, who are fighting against the evil Yankees from the North, who have black union soldiers among them, whom overtake the town of Piedmont, which leads the KKK to take action and according to the movie become the savior of white supremacy. During this essay, I would focus on the themes of racial inequality, racism, and the archetypical portrayal of black people in the movie, which are significant especially during the era when the film was released.
Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” is devastating to watch, and yet also incredibly rewarding. A dramatized recreation of the final 24 hours Oscar Grant III’s life before being killed on New Year’s morning 2009, the movie opens with the actual video of Grant and a few of his friends being brutally harassed by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Police. We hear the onlookers yelling for the police to stop, to leave the kids alone. We see no response from the officers, except a muffled “I’m going to Tase him!” And then, we hear the shot ring out. And collectively, the onlookers gasp in horror.
The film that I will be discussing is called Malcolm X. It is also a very moving, touching, and scholastic film. It can be described as one of the best featured film memoires that was directed by Spike Lee. It has to deal with the all-inclusive sweep of an American existence that arose in distress and ended up out into the streets and in penitentiary before the situation of a brave man who became a hero redeveloped himself.
When put to trial does race play a part in the final decisions on our lives? The theme of inequality is very frequent throughout the text, inequality based upon race, and inequality based on fear. I intend to analyze the inequality received by Carl Lee throughout the trial because of his race or because of the fear place in the minds of the people.
Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler, is a movie based on true events. Oscar Grant, the main character in the movie, is twenty two year old African American guy. Oscar had done a lot of wrong things in his life. He was arrested and sent to prison for selling drugs, cheated on his girlfriend. Some viewers might see Oscar as a person with bad characteristics, but to some, he also has a positive qualities. One of those positive sides is that Oscar loved his daughter, Tatiana, very much. Oscar was shot in the back by a police officer in Fruitvale Station. I think Oscar should not have died. The movie also sheds light on African American stereotype, that " white people " should not be afraid of " black people ". It does not matter what skin color people have, they should not be judged by other people without getting to know them. Everybody is equal.
John Singleton’s view of social problems in South Central Los Angeles happens in a tale of three friends growing up together. Doughboy and Ricky Baker are half-brothers and have opposite personalities. Ricky is a football player who hopes to win a scholarship and spends most of his time playing football. On the other hand, Doughboy is a young man who looks upon his environment for guidance. He is involved in violence, abusing drugs, and participates in violence. In between is their friend Tre, who actually has a father to teach him what is right from wrong. Furious Styles, who is Tre’s father in the film does everything in his strength to keep his son from becoming another startling statistic. As you can see, it is always important for parents to be a part of their child’s life because it can make a big difference not only in their life but also their child’s future.
The focus of the movie Crash is on racial and ethnic tensions in the Los Angeles area. This film tells a fictional story that revolves around a series of criminal events in the Los Angeles area involving the interactions of a racially and ethnically diverse mix of characters. The main theme of the film is that all people contribute to racial and ethnic stereotypes and these stereotypes surface in a variety of ways as people continuously interact with one another in society. This movie clearly tackles issues of race and ethnicity in a unique way because by watching the film, it has the capacity to make the audience stop and think about their own racial biases that they hold. Definite soul searching can come from this movie, as well as one
At the subway complex the Caucasian man, in which he had a problem with while in prison, started a fight with Grant. Police officer’s where called into the scene, but as usual the Caucasian man gets away and they arrested Grant, the African American. While Grant was arrested, he was trying to get his friends released because they had nothing to do with the fight. During the argument there were people video recording the scene. To add, the police officers in this movie where Caucasian, and in the movie it made it seem like Grant was the unscrupulous person in the problem, but it was no't him. Due to the racist police officers, the Caucasian man was not arrested. The police officer’s made it seem as if Grant was trying to resisted the arrest, in the process of this Grant was scared to death, the officer keep telling Grant that he was going to tase him. When trying to pull out the taser he instead grabs the wrong weapon and shoots him. Grant died hours later. Grant was a great example of how African American’s get blamed for something they didn't do, because of misjudgment of others. Just because he had a bad past does not mean he stayed bad, plus the racism around him did not help get him proper justice. People need to learn how to not be so bias, and view the other side of the story not just
... supremacist gang, to rioting in an Asian owned grocery store, to finally brutally murdering someone. We observe as family ties become increasingly strained in every way, the viewer can easily conclude that Derek’s racism as well as his eventual influence on his younger brother ultimately contributed to their own downfall. As controversial as this movie maybe for the offensive language and brutal violence, it is a movie that deserves to be seen, and even discussed. It really provides insight into some factors within society that cannot be contained by the law or even deterred by even the harshest punishments. Even though American society is becoming more modernized as time goes by in terms of tolerance, racism will unfortunately always be prevalent in society and inevitably it will also lead some individuals to violently express their distorted mentalities.
... that the film opens with. While the story may be slightly dramatic and pieces of the story “coincidentally” seem to fall into exactly the wrong place at the wrong time causing the tragedies in the film to happen, the events in this film are entirely capable of being a reality. Racism and prejudice continue to be prevalent issues in our society, but like Anthony, we can learn to overcome anything that holds us back from putting unity into practice and making our world a better place for everyone.
Fruitvale Station was an authentic, clear, and realistic dramatization of the real events, and life of Oscar Cruz. The film displayed different types of sociological theories from racial profiling to prejudice to discrimination to institutional discrimination. The main objective of this film was to open the eyes of viewers to the struggles, and indifferences a minority group faces in modern day America.