Killing Them Softly is a 2012 crime movie that tells the story of Russell and Frankie, two lower-class white men who try anything to make some cash. The story also follows a man named Jackie who tries to kill Russell and Frankie for stealing money from him. This film touches on how money can cause violence and murder when in the wrong hands. The film is also seen as an allegory for the 2008 recession and how that impacted American citizens. This film relates to our course on capitalism by showing how the 2008 recession affected lower-class citizens and the things some of these people had to do to stay afloat. The film also touches on classism and how different characters experience different things due to their perceived and or actual economic …show more content…
He does this because he lives in poverty, has an addiction, and doesn't have the education to think he should go to rehab, and even if he did, he wouldn't have the money to go to rehab. In the article Roberts-Baptiste, K., & Hossain, M. (2018, April). Socioeconomic disparities and self-reported substance abuse. The author states “a family income less than $20000 was 34% more likely to report having substance abuse-related problems compared to persons in the highest income category.” (Roberts-Baptiste & Hossain, 2018). The author uses a survey to gather this information, however they use a diverse selection of participants and a broad selection of questions to allow for accurate information. This study shows that Russell, living in the lower class, is more likely to have an addiction than someone who doesn't. If he didn't live in the lower class, he might've saved his money from his dog business instead of taking the job with Frankie, which ultimately ends up getting him killed. Throughout the film, Frankie is told how badly he smells, some characters even saying he smells worse than a barnyard. This is due to living in a dilapidated home in a low-class
Fruitvale station was about a man named Oscar and his life in twenty-four hours. In conflict perceptive it is said that their need ‘d to be different social classes for our sociality to function. In the movie it showed how it was hard for someone from a poor social class reach a higher class. The movie touched subject of gender-roles deviance and race.
The film delves into the protagonist’s ideologies and their profound impact on society, illustrating a narrative that prioritizes his intellectual
injustices and issues in the United States. The film also incorporates the military life, military
The movie addresses many key issues in the United States; issues such as people of different socioeconomic statuses as well as gender stereotyping and deals with the issue of race and education.
The rich people control and use the poor. The ghetto-dwellers have to struggle to stay alive by working, begging and stealing. They pay for things like food and bus rides with time, not money. And their lifespan decreases each time they pay for anything. In the movie, they make less time for more work, and the prices of things keep rising until they cannot pay anymore. Then the poor are found dead on the streets because their clock ran
A way this movie can relate to this class would be the diversity issues of race, and gender. In my Cultural Diversity class we learn a lot about diversity in race and gender and what causes it to take place which can lead to your values of families back then. Values were completely different years back. If you’re taught what is right is to have slaves and it’s all you ever see then people will follow along. Because, if you don’t follow along with the values of ones close to you sometimes it could of lead to death, judgement from family and friends, or even becoming a slave yourself as punishment. Values are described as the deep subjective ideals and standards by which members of a culture judge their personal actions and those of others(Page
Culture plays an pivotal role in establishing the characters within this movie. Many different people have different cultures, however, through cultural relativism,
The film educated me enough to use in my paper because it helped me realize that the middle class considered the “poor” will always be seen as the lower, unimportant percent of
The movie takes up a lot of subjects. One obvious is slavery. There is also discrimination of women and human trafficking.
The last thing I am choosing to focus on is the importance of class in these films. Summing everything up I am focusing on how the cause of fear, deception, the importance of background, and class were
Murder and Cowardice the documentary that tell the story of the Trinity II lift boat incident that occurred in September 2011 and was aired on the 4th of March 2012 on channel 7’s Sunday night. The documentary tells the story of ten men of whom were “abandoned” by the so called rescue ship the Mermaid Vigilance on a lift boat at sea in the middle of a hurricane resulting in the deaths of four men.
The social problems presented in the film include crime and racial discriminations. Most of the scenes in the film revolve around robbers such the case where Perry and Keogh investigate the robbery and in the course kill some of the suspects associated with
What is the message of the film and how does that fit into any social debate
It implies that the true nature of people is perfectly demonstrated in their perfect interaction with the environment. The movie shows the people who are worked in the oppressing society. As the poor people are pushed to live like low-class citizens, they become annoyed and seeks retaliation. It is a true revelation that the environment created for people to live in determines their resultant behavior. The leadership has a greater responsibility to ensure that people are united by advancing policies and rules that keep them together instead of dividing them. There is an apparent socially fabricated struggle as the people considered to be vulnerable decides to fight for their space. This would be a greater recipe for chaos as seen in the
The film discussed the reasons why poverty became prevalent. Then goes on to show how poverty has created a system which becomes dependent on so-called “crime” and drug use. An example of how poverty affected the black community is when black Americans couldn’t find jobs so they resorted to drug dealing to live. A self-perpetuating system evolved from a lack of jobs turning needy people into criminals. Discrimination historically set certain groups up to fail to control their population. An example given in the film talked about the Chinese opium in the 1920’s, African-American cocaine in the 1950’s and the Mexicans who smoked marijuana around 1910. All three of these groups posed a threat to the American population at the time because these people were hard