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Get out (3)

Get out reminds me of the movie, Us. Apart from both the movies being directed by Jordan Peele, there is a running theme of mind-body dualism. In Us we see that there are doppelgangers for people, in order to control them known as Tethered. But this experiment failed to establish a connection to both souls of the doppelgangers. There are multiple conspiracies about how both the movies are connected. In the end, both the movies show failed experiments.

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Get out (2)

In both these movies, we see the theme of white savior. Both these movies have white people posing to help black people. Although, this theme is not fully carried out in Get out. We also see that white people have a use for black people and just discard them when they have no use for them anymore.

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Get out (1)

I watched Get Out multiple times prior to this class. The first time I watched it, I enjoyed it thoroughly and I watched purely for entertainment and not for any analysis basis. When I watched it the second time, I slowly started analyzing the film subconsciously. This movie depicts more about race than Gender. This movie shows how white people fetishize black bodies and would go to any lengths to achieve or have a part of this in their lives. Since it is a psychological thriller, the movie has very deep and meaningful ideas about how the mind and body are different but the same. This shows Descartes's principles of Mind-Body dualism. We see that with the effect of hypnosis, we see a shift of the personalities that are trapped inside the bodies. This movie was very insightful and made me think a lot about the mind. Get out also shows the white savior theme in multiple scenes. For instance, when Rose is seen sitting in her room and drinking milk and eating cereal, we see that both of them are in different containers. This shows that Rose and her family segregate the White and the Coloreds.

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The Help (3)

This movie reminds me of Ethnic notions and the example of Mammy culture. In The Help we see how black women take care of white children and are almost like a substitute to their ignorant mothers. They are mothers for the children, a wife who cooks for the husband and does everything in the house. It looks like the white women are there just to socialize and keep up an image.

“It is a magnificent example of the convention of the lady in nineteenth century culture. Scarlett O’hara is constrained by this role of the lady she must be, as the daughter of the affluent white plantation family, and she doesn’t want to fit into it. So she feels to us feminist in her defiance of the code which even her Mammy has to teach her.“ -Camille Paglia

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The Help (2)

Both the film The Help and the film Gook contain a lot of racial conflict. They both briefly discuss racism against Black people. The film Gook discussed the Rodney King riots that were taking place at the time in 1992, as well as the riots and racial tensions between Black people and white people, but also between Black people and Asian Americans. Whereas in the film The Help, a Black man was shot and killed by the KKK, Aibileen and the Black man were forced to leave the bus and find their own way home. Aiblileen was basically fleeing for her life to Minny's house. The films also do an excellent job of depicting racial tensions between African-Americans and other races. In the film Gook, the conflict is between Asian Americans and Black Americans. The tension in the film The Help is between white and black Americans. However, both films demonstrate the inhumanity of all these racial exchanges, such as name calling and physical fights; these films demonstrate why people of all skin complexions are just people and should be treated with respect.

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The Help (1)

The film ‘The Help' is about racial prejudice against black women. Skeeter, a white college student, returns home to write a book about black women who have worked for white families. Nobody wants to be interviewed by her at first because they are afraid their lives will be jeopardized. Skeeter would then interview Aibileen until she is ready. But what is the source of the film's controversies? It's the way Skeeter is portrayed as a white savior. Holly discussed the segregation of bathrooms for black maids in the film. She even persuaded her friends to build a separate bathroom in their own home. Holly wielded such power over her friends that anything she said was taken seriously. Holly fired her maid Minny for not using a colored bathroom. We see separation not only in the bathroom, but also in transportation. When Aibileen takes the bus home, we see how black people are seated in the back while white people are seated in the front. We hear Aibileen repeating the quote "You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important" to Mae throughout the film. Ailbileen looks after Mae as if she were her own daughter. Mae's mother isn't always available to her daughter. She doesn't show affection and has always chastised her daughter for her weight. When Ailbileen had to leave Elizabeth's employ, we can see that Mae was sad to see her go. Aibileen was more of a mother figure to Mae than her own mother.

Eat my shit. What’d you say? I said eat my shit.

The Help(2011) dir. Tate Taylor

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Gook (3)

The recent rise in racism against Asians reminds me of the movie Gook. People of Asian descent are being targeted by people in America and are being beaten, shot at and killed. This increased rise in racism towards Asians started due to the spread of COVID-19 and for the virus being called the Chinese virus (which is wrong and dangerous).

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Gook (2)

Jonah, Chiron and Kamilla. All three kids portray how childhood was for kids back then. They all came from dysfunctional homes, who look up to someone who is not family to help them through life and look at them as parental figures. Chiron and Kamilla did not have the conventional parents.

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Gook (1)

This was another capable film that talked upon the 1992 LA Riots in reaction to Rodney King’s case. We learned that dark Americans weren’t the as it was influenced by the riots but as well the Asian community. We were able to see the perspective of two Korean American brothers that possess a shoe store and how within the conclusion their store was plundered. But indeed all the contention between both communities, they have a fellowship with Kamilla, a 11 year ancient dark young lady. The film’s center on the doubt among distinctive minority bunches is exceptionally well done.

There's exceptionally small solidarity among distinctive persecuted bunches. Be that as it may, this film does a incredible job in exhibiting the contrast of suppositions among comparable ethnic bunches. For occasion, Mr. Kim’s convictions are distinctive from Eli’s and David’s, Jesus contrasts from Cesar, Kamilla contrasts from Keith.

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Moonlight (3)

This movie reminds me of this show called "The Wire". In this show we see poor black communities and all kinds of drugs being pumped into their community. We see gay drug lords and killing and everything.

The Wire - 01x09 “Game Day”

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Moonlight (2)

The movies, We the Animals and Moonlight carry a lot of similarities. Both the main characters of these movies found themselves to be Gay. Jonah in We the Animals, questions his sexuality and has an intimate moment with his neighbor friend, and Chiron has a similar experience with his friend Kevin. But in the end, both the characters question their identity.

Here Juan tells Chiron that you can't let anyone decide who you are for you. We see that Chiron's mom asks him "Who is you Chiron '' and he starts to cry. I think it's because he lost a sense of who he was along the way and he let people decide for him. In the end we see that he meets Kevin and it seems like he starts to accept who he is.

MOONLIGHT 2016 | dir. Barry Jenkins

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Moonlight (1)

Moonlight is a powerful movie. While watching the movie we see Chiron go through states of life and the people who aid him and make him into the man he turns out to be. At first we see a young Chiron, lost and being bullied. He is so terrified and constantly shut down that he doesn't talk much. When Juan finds Chiron and takes him to Theresa we see chiron starts to get comfortable. Juan plays the paternal role for young Chiron and helps him through his life. Chiron's real mom (Paula) seems a little ignorant of Chiron and is seen to be a drug user. Paula is seen to be unhelpful and a little abusive towards Chiron, she also seems jealous of Theresa because Chiron looks to Theresa for comfort and care. In the next stage, we see that Chiron makes a friend called Kevin. They have been friends since a young age, and one night both boys share an intimate moment under the moonlight on the beach while sharing a joint. This seems to be a very intimate moment for Chiron because he had never gotten close to anyone like that before. But the next day, Kevin is dared to beat up Chiron, which he does. By doing so, he complete;y shatters Chiron's trust and friendship. After this the scene cuts to a grown man, (Chiron) who is now selling drugs on the streets.

MOONLIGHT (2016)

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We The Animals (3)

Some scenes from the movies reminds me of the domestic violence that people face with their own partners. It just seems like people are more tolerant of domestic violence, that happens inside relationships and they would just brush it off and say, "Ohh its their relationship, we should just leave it be". It's honestly baffling to see that people would care about violence that happens inside relationships.

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We The Animals (2)

In both the films, The breakfast club and We the Animals we see that there is toxic masculinity. In The Breakfast Club, we see the Principle threatening the kids by saying he would break their skulls if they misbehaved. We see a similar attitude in the dad in the movie We the Animals. Once the dad is angry it is expected for everyone to be terrified/scared of him. Both the movies also aim to challenge the notion that men can't express their emotions or that they can't be "soft".

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We The Animal (1)

We the Animals is a movie about a mixed race family living in Upstate New york. The story is told through the eyes of the youngest son Jonah. The family in this movie seemed like an ordinary family, but they have their highs and lows like every family. We see a theme of abandonment, domestic abuse and ignorance. The parents work all day and night just to make ends meet and this in turn turns into ignorance while looking after their children. Throughout the film we see that Jonah has difficulty expressing his sexuality due to how he was brought up.

When we were brothers, we wanted more. We the Animals (2018) | dir. Jeremiah Zagar

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The Breakfast Club (3)

The scene where Bender goes inside Claire's skirt, honestly shocked me. It shocked me that there would be this scene in a movie like this. It reminded me of the #MeToo movement. A moment where everyone spoke about their sexual assault experiences, and it was suddenly shocking to everyone that so many of them were women. I did not enjoy this part of the movie at all.

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The Breakfast Club (2)

There are not many similarities between the two movies. The one that stands out the most is that both movies show the young adults American experience. Gogol from The Namesake, does not have a healthy relationship with his father tand the name Gogol, in the same way, the teenagers have a toxic relationship with their parents. The characters from both these films try to break the perception that the society has on them and come into their own personalities.