Film Review on Our Family Wedding

The movie, Brotherly Love, came to the theaters in a cape saving the public from a never ending trilogy of movies similar to The Notebook. In all honesty, it seems like Hollywood adapted Nicholas Sparks as the go to author to adapt story plots from. Whenever a new romantic film came out you can get bet your bottom dollar to sit through a film of old lovers who reconnected through a weird circumstance and spend the whole film trying to get back. The director, Jamal Hill took it upon himself to create a film that single handedly brought back the natural and pure essence of Romantic films. Brotherly Love brought a beautiful splash of melanin to the screen while bringing together minorities from different backgrounds. The film is set in Philadelphia, where the heart of the problems takes place in an all too familiar setting, the high school. Overbrook high is a place where many inner city kids can relate to since it highlights the two major problems that is very much evident and a problem around high schools today, drugs and crime. The separation of “The Hilltop” people from the “Bottoms” is all too common and the fact that the recent death of Omar from The Hilltop is still fresh you can almost sense a war arising.

The film Our Family Wedding illustrated the diversity among and between families. The film depicted the views of different generations within a family and how an interracial marriage affected them differently. The film explores new contemporary marriage trends and challenges traditional family roles and marriage trends. This paper will explore different demographic trends as it relates to the social constructs of class, race, and gender, survey the recent trends and changes towards contemporary marriage, and study the changes in the family relationships within the film. Conclusively, this film analysis will use textbook concepts and examples in the movie to establish a framework for the diverse family system and the changing marriage.

The emotional reaction that the filmmakers intended for anyone who watch this film is that no matter what skin, hair and eye color is no one deserves to be labeled. No race should be discriminated and criticize. We should all get along and just be proud of where our roots come from. This film also intended for everyone who watch this film, is that there should not have to be obstacles to be proud of your own race.

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It touched upon a lot of racial inequality such as the Black Lives Matter protests and how white privilege is prevalent. I also appreciated the all black cast because they don’t get much recognition in theatre and media today. An all black cast was necessary in order to effectively uncover the truth about racism and colorism, which still exists in our world today.

I think that the movie successfully portrayed Nat Turner as the hero that he is to the black community. As well as to some History students like me. I felt it was close to what we know about the time period, the environment and the society. The movie gave me mixed emotions as most movies should. But as a student learning about history of this great country we live in, I actually felt embarrassed and relieved at the same time. The movie covered both historical and current affairs. A person born to slavery will have to endure oppression until his breaking point, and the when he finds a slight moment of courage, he will fight back, even if it kills him.

Scholars have argued that the films liberalism views considered that integration will resolve racism. The film’s category of comedy states that the topic of a white woman having a sexual relationship with a black man is filled with tensions. The film was a one of a kind that questioned if the United States was willing to accept the love of two people, of different races. The actors did a good job on showing how difficult it would be to accept a marriage of such kind, they showed that a black man, even of elite status would only be seen for his color of skin first, and not who he was as a person. They also showed that money and class matter, if John was a common blue collard man, perhaps Joey’s father would not have reacted the same way and

In conclusion, this affected me so much was of course the fact the movie revolved around black people and the ghetto. When you're young and haven't experienced any of these things first hand, or even traveled to some of these places where this stuff happens, watching movies was the only way to "experience" it. So unfortunately for a few years of my life I grew up thinking that this was exactly what the ghetto life was about. That it was filled with mostly sociopathic people who had no value of the human life. That people wouldn't think twice to kill you over something so stupid as a joke. Where I grew up, if you mouthed off you got punched in the face. It was a price to pay, but it wasn't as scary as these kids and people had to live through.

Cultural Issue: This movie was full of cultural issues but the one that stood out the most had to do with race. Racism is “the subordination of any person or group because of some physically distinctive characteristic” (Marsiglia & Kulis,

Also what I found more interesting of this movie because to me personally was educational. I know every day its prejudice and stereotype all over the world. These stereotypes were developing in the past and present circumstances. It was concentrating on different ethnic groups and was based real life of typical everyday life for those people.

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I think this film was successful is showing that people don't always fit the stereotype they have been given, and that there is more to a person than their actions or

Regardless of the increased rate, there are difficulties when one is married to an individual of a different race. In an interracial marriage, there are consist disagreements about cultural values and beliefs due to the fact that one may be raised differently. Many spouses in interracial marriage, find it difficult to men discrimination, stereotypes, and negative reactions from society, rejection from families and isolation in their everyday lives. Family members such as in-laws are sometimes connected to unsuccessful marriages. There are parents who do not accept the marriage due to the fact that one spouse is racially different from the other, moreover, this spouse is now part of the family and their negativity may let down their son or daughter. Society’s disapproval is an issue that cannot be ignored, due to being unwelcomed and stared down, problems arise and one feels inferior to the group, community, and society. Overall, according to the survey conducted, 76% of students agreed that interracial married couples still face discrimination and stereotypes. It is very unfortunate that some of these problems exists and results in higher rates of

Although Thurman’s character adopts some male characteristics, it can be argued that the film also conforms to Mulvey’s theory. Throughout the film, The Bride is shown as a wronged mother seeking revenge on her family thus fitting to the female stereotype where women are seen to be emotional and having a set role in the household. Moreover, although Thurman is exhibited as a dominant entity, she is also abetting the idea of the voyeuristic pleasure men experience by her tight fitted outfit which can be seen as a way to make the character even more attractive. Due to this outfit, male viewers are given the chance to objectify her as a sex object. As Mulvey states, cinema adopted a male point of view for the benefit of an assumed male

The lack of diversity essentially gives a negative stigma for the film that is difficult to defer. It can pose a question of was the film director racist and chose not include people of color? Was it purposely does this way or was it accidental? Does the director not support sexual orientation deviation? Also, why was the handicap father only shown briefly on rare occurrences? Was this done on purpose or was it done unintentional? This poses many enquiries that are challenging to answer due to the lack of evidence on the topic matter. A second look at the film, made me recognize that not every instance in life is going to be black and white. This alone can cause controversy of the film, because it has deficiencies in these categories.