The Movie Fence Film Analysis
The Movie fence takes place within the early 1950s, which was to be a period of an atypical family. Meaning the men went out to work and the women stayed at home tending to the domestic duties. During this period of time the struggle of racial discrimination had exist and played a role onto to the main characters of the film. Through the film it showed that African Americans were both often incarnated, out of jobs, only can obtain low wage jobs, and couldn’t assimilate with the rest of the community. This film was able to showcase the rising of the black middle class, and the ability to obtain a “better” life then what the government standards has stated for African Americans. Like the Emily Badger reading, “Baltimore shows how historic segregation shapes biased policing today”; it showed racial segregation through the placement of which on lives. When all the whites moved out the neighborhood all the blacks moved into the neighbor of the city of Pittsburg. Which would be do the redlining and the banks targeting black communities to keep those from integrating into white communities and its economy. Throughout the film it talks about the inability for blacks to receive loans and when they do gain the ability it has a high interest rate attached. The characters of the film felt as if they couldn’t do better because the
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Through out the film it is seen that the policing is only done within the Black and urban communities. Daily the police are ready to place black men within the system. You can see this through the characters of Gabe, who is mentally challenged, the police constantly try to throw him in jail for “disturbance”, although he isn’t doing anything harmful to the community. This film shows that the white communities and government system was created to keep the privileged, privilege and the deprived,
Through out the film it is seen that the policing is only done within the Black and urban communities. Daily the police are ready to place black men within the system. You can see this through the characters of Gabe, who is mentally challenged, the police constantly try to throw him in jail for “disturbance”, although he isn’t doing anything harmful to the community. This film shows that the white communities and government system was created to keep the privileged, privilege and the deprived,