Straight Outta Silhouette Film Analysis

To the world black women are viewed as a statistic, or number. They are categorized as a minority. As a black female, you are painted in literature as a fragile, irrelevant, and mindless character that most often leans on her husband or father to guide her decisions. In television and cinema you are over-sexualized to be viewed as an object of either pleasure or promiscuity. Although this is how the world continues to portray the black woman, it is so far from the reality of the situation.

In another event, some racist white boys attack and hit Odessa’s daughter and son for having darker skin and being ‘idiot coons.’ This is one of many examples of racism being a factor. The ultimate clash of the subordinate (whites) and insubordinate (African-Americans) groups comes at end of the film with the mob seen at the carpool lot. This shows racism, discrimination and stereotyping all in one. It is amazing to me to see both how far and how little we have come as a society.

In Audre Lorde’s story, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference,” she reveals the difficulties that women of color have and are experiencing. Based off of money and profit, she argues how society challenges superiority. Which leads into the classification of “dehumanized inferior(s),” who are considered as “Third World people, working-class people, older people, and women” (Lorde 114). She provides her experience of inferiority by discussing her personal thoughts of inferiority. Lorde thinks that “[I]t is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes” (114). She believes that society should be open-minded in seeing difference. Lorde argues that individuals are ignoring it and they aren't realizing

In the movie, the producer discussed about the struggle women, which includes minorities women had to face in America such as cratering for the family, working, and at the same time treated like they were nobody in the society. The ladies with low income rate had to live with cheap cloths and bedroom with no windows. Likewise, there was no law or rules that prevent men from attracting the ladies who decided to protest against the action. It was a patriarchal society. Most women worked at the Triangle short way factory and the men made sure the ladies worked very hard and was pay low wages. Also, the producer analyzed that the women and children were locked in the factory and none of them were able to leave until their hours were completed.

That every black women are loud and rude and plain disrespectful. And let’s not forget abusive. Director/screenwriter Tim Alexander details the increasingly difficult relationships between black men and women in this controversial comedy detailing one man's quest to find the perfect mate. Overall, this movie use comedy to soften the blow before they hit you with there so called reality check. But not to mention the male lead in the movie just might have bad taste in women period. Another important thing to note is that this movie had expanded its international influence.

This movie is considered to be a romantic comedy where it appealed the interests of individuals that resonated with them. The characters in the film were white individuals who were living a wealthy life. The 1960s was a time period in America where politics and social affairs were growing continuously. Also, the women’s movement played a vital role in the 1960s as well. This was a time where issues were being addressed when it came to gender roles in American society.

It also highlights the extreme prejudices that women faced during the early 20th century, which, just over 100 years later, seem nearly impossible to imagine. Viewing the film not only helped me to better

The film spoke volume in most community cultures and most ethic groups because of what was going on around the community. Crime was at an all-time high in those days and most still says even in today’s society. The film did not just speak on black on black crime but how society looks down upon the black culture such as; the public school systems when dealing with the education system, the area that an individual live, how an individual is dress, how an individual communicate with us and the crime within that individual area.

This academy award winning film is a phenomenal piece created to emphasize the racial relations that impacted crime as America was recovering from the terrorist attack. The movie switches back and forth between two days, a 36-hour period, providing viewers with enough information to understand what and why things were happening. The overall plot was to showcase the lives of several individuals, from different backgrounds, and how their lives intertwine. Viewers got a gist of what each individuals did for a living, but Paul Haggis wanted to make sure the movie focused more on who these individuals are. The main objective of this movie was to focus on on race relations in Los Angeles, which allowed viewers to relate to the characters. The actors/actresses

According to Collins (1996), CRC (1995), hooks (1995, 2015), Lorde (2014), Nayak (2015), James (1999), and Bridewell (2016), White women had different priorities and agendas of their oppression, different assumptions and distortions of a lived experience giving feminism universal power without race, class, and gender. Even within the visual arts, Black women do not have the space where their experiences are respected and heard.

After analyzing the film one question that was not asked was Do they feel that this type of racial discrimination also impacts women in the same way?

This movie is amazing and inspirational to other young black women, it shows that you many struggle but if you keep going your dreams and hard work will be recognize. This film touch on the gender norms and racial norms, which has strong connection to the four reading I choice to critical review this blog. This movie has strong connection to the Gaga Feminism theory, the concept is “a set of wholesale changes that may be most obvious in the realm of gender norms but that also stretch too many other realms of everyday experience and that call for improvisational feminism that keeps pace with the winds of political change.” Hidden-figures proved that Black women can do whatever they want if they put their mind to it. This is breaking down what society has deem as the normal way of doing this.

Black communities can face power struggles not only with the outside communities, but also within their own. The film “Set It Off” begins with a struggle between a primarily white, advantaged community against Frankie, a black woman from the poor projects area, but the main conflicts happen within the black community. The four women in this film struggle against a system set against them, against the black men from the projects who seek to keep them down, and the outside community that doesn’t want to deal with them. The focus of the film “Set It Off” is on four black women Stony, Frankie, Cleo, and Tisean (TT).

I strongly recommend this film to all senior college students around New Zealand, because of the sophistication and the countless messages to all generations. One of the most outstanding themes to me, is that sexism was rife in the 1980’s USA. This theme astounds e, I think

​ Straight Outta Compton, a movie released in 2015, depicts the formation, prevalence, dissolution and reorganization of the gangsta rap group N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes). It is a top-grossing movie with a box office reaching 56.1 million USD. So, why this movie has made such a great success and has received such a high reputation nationwide? As far as I am concerned, the reason lies in its disclosure of American social issues at the end of 1980s. It is indeed a mirror that reflects the American social issues at that time with the description of the socio-economic and political structure of the Reagan Era especially from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. After watching the movie, I found that there are three major conflicts in the American society, namely the racial discrimination against