Reflective Essay About Racism
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The movie was an interesting movie because it has the ability to make you react with many emotions. The movie follows characters that live in Los Angeles and the characters are involved in each other characters’ lives. With each character I had a first impression and I would most of the time end up with different impressions of them in the end. There are a few concepts I noticed and created after watching the film. I had a variety of emotions while watching the film, the most notable emotions were angry to hopeful. Regarding racism the action I could take is to not always rely on stereotypes. The first concept important to me that I learned after watching the film is the main theme for the film. I believe the main theme of the film …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the movie was an interesting movie because it has the ability to make you react with many emotions.
- Explains that the main theme of the film is within the busy city of los angeles lives of people collide with conflict.
- Analyzes how the film had a haunting effect on their emotions. they felt disgusted and angry by what occurred in it.
- Opines that taking action on a subject shows that one is truly understanding of the subject.
- Analyzes how the film's main subject is racism and how it affects people in a busy city. they felt angered, irritated, and depressed.
Taking action on a subject shows that one is truly understanding of the subject. The feeling of being angry influences me to try to control my own racism since everyone has a degree of racism in them from having prejudice to being a full out racist. I’ve always been against racism, and racism ends in horrible damage. This racism was mainly fueled by stereotypes which every character had. I am regularly trying to stay away from racism as much as I can, but this movie still had a huge effect on my emotions. Maybe people who are more racist may change their ways or understanding of racism and they may try their best to be less racist. I would not say I would try to change people and take out their racism because racism comes from how they grew up and how they perceive others. It is out of our control, but it does not mean it is entirely impossible to persuade an individual with the negative effects of racism. One of the examples of teaching others would be to teach others that stereotypes are not completely reliable. The main subject that is in the film is racism. The one of the two concepts I learned was within a busy city people’s lives collide with one another. Another concept is that everyone has different amounts of racism in them ranging from prejudice to full out racism. I felt much emotion while watching the movie as struggle added up for all the characters. I mostly
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