I chose prompt one and I am disagreeing with it.
Watching a movie, now a days, seems to be almost a routine for American people and everyone around the world.
Movies not only fill our “too much time on your hands” problem but also is said to teach a certain thought or lesson, through an artistic way. Just like first quarter, analyzing a film is a skill everyone has adapted since watching 12 Years a Slave and Glory back in August. As a class, our next task was to watch the tear jerking film about the Great Depression, called Cinderella Man. Now, only briefly talking about this certain topic, going into this movie us, as the audience, had our minds opened and ready to feel some empathy towards what the Great Depression was about.This certain movie opened up the audiences minds and thoughts to what people going through a rough patch would be during the 1930’s. The audience learns certain emotions and a true story about a struggling boxer, but this particular film only focused on the lower class rather than the upper class.
I do agree that the movie, Cinderella Man, did shine some light and took the audience back to the 1930’s during is said to be the hardest time in American History. The inspirational true story really reaches out to the audiences emotions, and also teaches some aspects on how people lived in the 1930’s. When watching this well known movie, I couldn't help but notice one specific thing that only occurred very briefly through out the whole movie. It seemed a majority of the movie only showed and interpreted how the lower class was affected by the Stock Market crashing. From watching and analyzing this movie, I did learn certain things, but in my perspective, this story was mainly about a famous boxers life and emotions he struggled and dealt with. People now a days, when talking about this topic fail to understand that the upper class did too have, not the same struggles, but new struggles during the Great Depression time period. Even though a lot of people in America were hit hard and lost a lot of money, there still was an upper class that was scattered across the states.
Believe it or not, during the Great Depression the upper class was still shining with too much money in their grasp, and that seemed to what the lower class envied. Even with the Stock Market crashing and a majority of American citizens losing their jobs and money, this certain event only seemed to make a small dent in the upper classes bank accounts. The film failed to show some historical facts about the conflict between the upper and lower class. The much more fortunate upper class was actually infuriated because they had to pay certain taxes because they had a income, unlike a majority of America. As the upper class tended to not only not want to pay taxes on New Deal Programs, but they also now, flaunted there money teasing every starving and struggling person on the streets. Even though the populations of the upper class was small, the movie only focused on one mans story that maybe more than one person could relate to at the time. During the 1930’s the upper class did come with their stereotypical attitudes towards the lower class, but the movie never mentioned or showed how the upper class reacted to the poor boxer winning the boxing match. I would of liked to learn the perspective of maybe a rich person and the poor people in this time frame
In total, the audience has some perspectives on how the Great Depression was but the audience also seemed to only learn about one perspective, compared to both realistically. Now, if ever, watching this movie again the audience may find that they would like to do some research on the upper class since this film failed to show the interpretation. The one sided film did teach the boxers life story and showed his hard times, but now only leaves a questionable thought on why the upper class wasn't mentioned at all through out the movie. I disagree with the first prompt when stating “A person can learn quite a bit about life in America during the Great Depression just from watching the film, Cinderella Man.”
