"School Ties" Film Analysis
I have decided to watch movie” School Ties” because it talks about Americans college students from 1950s and their way of looking at race and religion. 'School Ties ' addresses the prevalent anti-Semitism views in the USA. But it also presents discrimination and social pressure to 'fit in ', the urge to deny one 's ideals and beliefs in order to be accepted by environment. Main character of the movie David Green is a Jewish kid who is very talented in football, this skill gets him a full scholarship to an exclusive New England Prep School and thereby a one in a million chance to get into Harvard. At the beginning of the movie we can see that David has to pay a high price because of his Jewish heritage. Before living to school David stopped at the local teen hangout to say goodbye to his friends, while doing it he get taunted by a member of a rival gang and called “Jewish buster”, after hearing that remark David fought him, it seems like he is used to getting respect from others by force. On the arrival day at the new school, David is advised by the sports coach to keep his Jewishness to himself. It is upsetting to know that even school officials are not able to tolerate his religion. Later, in the dormitory, David meets his upper-class schoolmates who are patently anti-Semitic, more because it 's the commonly accepted attitude than for any specific, personal reasons. Their casually spoken remarks bother David, but he does not react to it because he wants to fit in. He realizes that they 'll tolerate his not being as rich or as connected as them better than the fact of him being Jewish. David is willing to sacrifice a lot in order to be part of the group, even though it compromises his upbringing. He hides his Jewishness because he knows the reaction it will provoke. Yet he still sneaks off in the middle of the night to celebrate the Jewish New Year.
In the middle of the movie fact of David being a Jew comes out and at that moment his world falls apart.
In the middle of the movie fact of David being a Jew comes out and at that moment his world falls apart.