Precious Movie Sociology

This documentary is written, directed and produced by Michael Moore and is about the social repercussions of capitalism as well as corporate and government issues that conflict with the basic needs of people and their families. Moore takes a liberal humanistic look at the consequences of General Motors closing down several auto plants in Flint, Michigan in the late 1980's and what can happen when a city is almost completely reliant on a single industry that shuts down or moves away. Moore also looks at the failure of Flint city officials to reverse the effects of the closures with trends like Auto World which had little effect (Moore, 1989).

Pleasantville is a motion picture that was released in 1998 which is a fictional drama on

The Notebook demonstrates the growth and development theories including biosocial, psychosocial, and cognitive. The Notebook is a movie about a young couple who falls in love. The woman, Allie, is from a wealthy family who is discouraged when she has fallen in love with a young man, Noah, who only makes .40 cents an hour (Cassavetes, 2004). The story is told through a “notebook” that Noah is reading to Allie, whom has Alzheimer’s disease. Allie has no clue that Noah is her husband due to her disease. Noah has hope that Allie will eventually recognize the story he is telling her and realize it is her husband

As a child, Jeannette’s sense of wonder and curiosity in the world undermine the need for money. During her young adult years, a new wave of insecurity associated with her poor past infects her. Finally, as an experienced and aged woman, Jeannette finds joy and nostalgia in cherishing her poverty- stricken past. It must be noted that no story goes without a couple twists and turns, especiallydefinitely not Jeannette Walls’. The fact of the matter is that growing up in poverty effectively craftsed, and transformsed her into the person she becomeshas become. While statistics and research show that living in poverty can be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, Jeannette Walls encourages children living in poverty to have ownership over their temporary situation, and never to feel inferior because of past or present socio-economic

Precious is a movie that was produced based off a book. The movie was a story about a 16-year-old girl Claireece “Precious” Jones who was abused by her family emotionally, physically, mentally, and sexually. (Magness, Siegel-Magness, & Daniels, 2009) Taking at a look at this from a social worker perspective one can look at how to address the situation and how one work with a potential client like Precious. The film addresses many issues that a client may come across including the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

In the movie Precious, a 16-year old girl named Claireece Jones also known as Precious is physically, sexually, and verbally abused by her parents. Precious has one child and is now pregnant with her second child which causes her to be kicked out of school. She transfers to an alternative school. Precious is illiterate; however, she learns to read, write, and to gain self-respect from her teacher at the alternative school. In the end, she becomes a woman, learning to stand up for herself and she raises two healthy children. There are three different types of abuse Precious faced from her parents. An example of how Precious mother physically abused would be when her mother would get out the chair and beat her daughter by throwing things at her, because she did something minor or nothing at all. Precious mother verbally abused her daughter by calling her “stupid, fat, and she will amount to nothing”. An example of how Precious father sexually abused her would be he raped ever since she was three years old, impregnated her with two children, and he also gave her HIV. The movie faced several biological and environmental issues in the family. One example of a biological issue faced in the movie would be when Precious was hungry, needed water, and sleep. She needed to have this because she was pregnant with her second child. In the movie, it shows Precious goes into a restaurant, to order some food, and runs out without paying. She stole the food because she was starving and her mom did not give her any money. An environmental issue would be Precious was from Harlem, New York. During that time, Harlem was a city in poverty, so she grew up with hardly any money. The income her mother got from her welfare check, she did not give Precious anything.

I attended the “Hardcoar about Social Justice Documentary Series” about minimalism on November 14, 2017 in the HCC Digital Auditorium. The event involved a documentary movie about minimalism followed up by a small panel of people who live a minimalist life style who answered questions. The movie presented an alternative to our modern consumer culture and the idea that money and material goods are the source of our happiness. The movie mainly used a variety of anecdotal stories from minimalists who changed their life styles, as well as scientists and economists who explained the benefit of minimalism. The panel didn’t last long, and just answered two questions. They talked a bit about how living with zero waste can tie in with minimalism.

Last week theme was intersectionality. Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. The Intersectionality of gender inequality and racial discrimination may be interpreted as the relation between these two institutions and how they are influenced by one another. That is to say that discrimination experienced because of gender, for example gender discrimination against women, can be directly related, encouraged, and shaped by someone’s race or ethnicity as well.

She showed a strong dissatisfaction to the world. She never thought that the white would understand what the black were experiencing and no one would want to know her hurt. The line game was the beginning. It can be regarded as not only a psychological game, but also a ceremony of an event or a baptism. Standing on the same line many times, there was the constant pain in each other’s eyes. The game resolved the difference and opposition between them. Those children had no way out of life who were growing up under the discrimination. Dreams didn’t exist for them. Changes took place in their lives. The trip was of great significance to them. They finally understand the massacre in museum. A boy wrote in the diary:” The boy was killed when he jumped off the train. Nonetheless why do I care about this…” It is probably because

The purpose of the Poverty Inc. is to shine a light on the poverty industry. The film emphasizes that although foreign aid is welcome and often times helpful, the long-term outcome can be very harmful. Despite this, the documentary doesn't try to make the claim that this aid is a monolith or even that it makes poverty worse. In fact, the foreign aid community has taken the steps to change the way aid is distributed and utilized. These changes include focusing on how to help these poor communities develop, such as women's health and education.

Precious and her family members are invisible to the larger world because they don’t posses any skill that enables them to make even the slightest difference in the world. The tests that Precious take show her lack of intelligence and only amplify her inferiority to the people around her. When you’re invisible, nobody treats you with respect; in the beginning of the book, everyone treats Precious like worthless trash. Though, later, she becomes visible again through the people she meets at the alternative school, and the birth of her second baby, Abdul.

Perhaps the best example of the negative views on society come when the character, No-Face, shows up. He is normal when Chihiro meets him outside of the bathhouse. Later in the film, as he is let into the bathhouse, he offers money to the spirits, revealing an incredible amount of greed from them. What is interesting is that the spirits were so harsh toward Chihiro for being human, probably because they used to have jobs as spirits but due to human nature they now work at the bathhouse. This causes the spirits to then reflect human nature themselves.

Nell, a movie known for its spectacular acting and realistic depiction of a ¨feral child¨, brought an awareness to not only mental illness, but to the reaction to the discovery of a new case study. The movie focuses on two psychologists, Lovell and Olsen, who both argue over the treatment for Nell, a woman who has lived away from all civilization, whose only companions were her mother and hallucinations of her twin sister who passed away at a young age. Given three months to study Nell and determine if she is capable of living in modern society, both doctors camp by her cabin in order to keep her safe from both the press and their own co-workers, who want to keep her in a mental facility and study her mental capacity and physical abilities. Over the course of time, Lovell and Olsen realize that Nell is capable of supporting herself in the cabin despite her language disability and it would do more harm than good to take her away from the safety of her home. Nell’s language disability is displayed throughout the entire movie.

More dramatically, it is portrait of filled and unfulfilled aspirations of a wander in western (capitalist) culture dragging a painful secret. She interacts with her lecture

Capitalism: A Love Story was directed my Michael Moore who is an American documentary filmmaker, it is 127min long and was released in 2009 in USA. The film shows families are being evicted from their homes while the business of real estate agencies flourished with the increasing number of foreclosures