The 2007 film Across the Universe take place in the late sixties depicted how American society was affected by the Vietnam War. The film involves music by the Beatles which also portrays the revolutionary feeling of the time period. The movie follows a group of twenty something’s each affected differently by the changing times. The film portrays the Detroit riots, the draft for the Vietnam War- fifth avenue Vietnam peace parade and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
In the film it depicts the 1967 Detroit riots which broke out July of that summer due to racial tensions in the African American community. The riot lasted for five days with reports of notoriously brutal police force. In the film they show the city burning, people running for their lives and a little boy singing in the midst of all the chaos. By the Sunday of the riot the crowds began to fight back the police brutality and the city broke out in utter chaos with break-ins as well as the city burning. The governor was forced to call in the National Guard to attempt to regain control over the city, this only add...
In Mississippi Burning, the police are very brutal towards the colored population. In recent times, police brutality has been experienced in the Southern States towards African Americans. This is a catalyst to the reason that police are required to wear a camera in their front pocket. In the movie, an example of police brutality is when the three ethnic men were being chased by a police car. This happened because the colored men were doing “white people work” as they referred it to. This shows how abusive the police can be and how the power may make them more arrogant than
Because of Mr. Jackson 's rebellious attitude, the movie parallels the 1960’s and the nonconformist ideology popular during that time.
This film demonstrated how there is vicious cycle that minorities are put into. The racism and injustice, of politics and the big image design of America. This film is named after the amendment which outlawed slavery, but left a significant loophole when it came to criminal convictions; a clear business in profits. I recommend everyone of all races and ethnicities to watch this. It is very new and shown on Netflix. It connects to this course, along with the movie “Boyz n the Hood” and Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, Criminology book in race and crime; “supports the argument that there are more African Americans in the criminal justice system because of bias operates” and also “the argument that racial disparities in official statistics reflect an actual difference in criminal behavior”(Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, 2013. P. 54). We see the connections of how the criminal justice system works in society and is connected through social factors of those disadvantaged and once labeled as a deviant, always a
The strikingly accurate portrayal of the life of an African American family in the 1950’s did a great job of keeping the interest up. The director’s mise-en-scene gave the film a believability that is rarely achieved. They did this through the well staged apartment that the film takes place in for the majority of the screen time. The cramped and cluttered home sets the stage for the actors in the film to truly live into their characters. The actors did a brilliant job of portraying the wide breadth of emotions in this film. Their engaging personalities kept the film alive and vibrant the
The story depicts the life of three friends who conspire to murder their bosses when they realize they are in the way of their happiness. There is major stereotyping of the African American people as seen through certain scenes in the movie. The Blacks are shown as the perpetrators of crime and the neighborhoods where they dwell in are referred to as ‘dangerous neighborhoods ‘ and the black’s as ‘dangerous people’. The name of the character ‘motherfucker jones’, use of word like ‘y’all’, ‘ thirty large’ and their association with murder, gives the audience the conception that the African Americans are associated with crime, murder and other immoral occupations; that all black people are illiterate and immoral. A link has been attached below, which shows the scene where the linguistic features such as tone, content, aim etc used by the Black guy are extremely
An exceptional film revolving around Dalton Trumbo and many other Hollywood artists. In 1947, Dalton Trumbo and many Hollywood figures were blacklisted for their political beliefs. This film depicts the effects that the blacklist and those who enforced it had on the lives of the communist in America; particularly those in Hollywood. Trumbo gathers his fellow Hollywood writers and tries to prove to said enforcers that their beliefs are theirs alone and does not affect their ability to produce great films. This film does exactly what its set out to do; it brings you to the time when amazing writers were blacklisted for believing in something other than the norm, and fighting for their right to believe in whatever they choose.
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
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...
The 1960 was an era of war, conflict, music, innovation, and social change; when one thinks of the 1960s, one of the first things that come to mind is the civil rights movement that peaked during this decade. The civil rights movement was a series of social movements that attempted to end racial segregation, discrimination, and all racial injustices. Non-white Americans, mainly African Americans at this time, used civil resistance and civil disobedience in order to change the government policies that discriminated against them such as segregation laws, Jim Crow laws, and the inability to vote for their nations leaders. There were two prominent leaders who had different ideas on how to obtain the same goal. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the only way to gain equality was through peaceful demonstrations; on the other hand, Malcolm X believed that he had a right to defend himself, even if it led to violence. In 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, a comic book was released about a group of mutants that tried to keep peace between their people and the humans. Thirty-seven year later a Hollywood film was made based on the comic book series. X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000) was a box office hit that earned $157,299,717 in theaters; this movie entered the lives of thousands of Americans and people worldwide. On the surface the film is a sci-fi action story, but beneath the surface it tell the story of America’s fight for equality and justice. This modern day portrayal of X-Men is an ode to our Nation’s past struggles of equality. This is evident through the portrayal of the mutant’s struggle and experiences of injustice, the two mutant leaders, and through the laws that congress attempts to pass against them.
This film represents our indigenous culture and regardless of what happens we can find good in a situation. Together the black and white community can come together and achieve more than they could ever do by themselves.
This demonstrates to us that no matter how much your legal or moral laws are violated, what matters is how you as an individual react to the situation, justly or unjustly. This movie is centered around the notion that if you are a person of ethnic background, that alone is reason for others to forsake your rights, although in the long run justice will prevail
Everyone is entitled to their opinion; however, whether a person backs up their opinion with credible reasons truly validates the opinion or not. It is more than okay to disagree with one other because of differences in opinions. Having a legitimate reason as to why a person does not prefer one thing and not the other will maximize their position and gain respect. I came into the course of Appreciation of Film disliking anything Star Wars or Star Trek related. Once I heard they were both in the genre of science fiction, I immediately labeled them as unworthy to watch. In spite of this wrong accusation, I had no logical reasoning for why I did not like these movies. I had not even sat through a whole movie. Watching Star Trek Into Darkness
Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan, was a very complex and interesting sci-fi movie. This movie in particular has a lot of factors playing into the movie. Everyone is able to find their favorite part about the movie, and various people can watch this movie and connect with it. This movie came out in 2014, and shocked millions of people by its intense ending. Interstellar was awarded for best visual effects, and then nominated for many other things including, best original score, best sound mixing, and best sound effects which played a huge role in making the movie. The image and sound complement each other, but I thought that image dominated over sound because there were so many silent moments throughout the movie. I thought the plot
This movie takes place in Los Angeles and is about racial conflicts within a group of people which occur in a series of events. Since there are a wide variety of characters in this movie, it can be confusing to the viewer. In the plot, Graham is an African-American detective whose younger brother is a criminal. His mother cares more about his brother than Graham and she wants Graham to bring his brother back home, which in turn hurts Graham. Graham?s partner Ria is a Hispanic woman who comes to find that her and Graham?s ethnicities conflict when she had sex with him. Rick is the Los Angeles district attorney who is also op...
The timing of this film was a significant factor in the story line. In the middle of the Great Depression unemployment and poverty were a major