And the end is here.

I do not understand why all of the woman characters in these movies have dependency issues. They are either angry or harsh like Blondie, who is willing to kidnap people for her husband, or like the senator’s wife who is a drug addict. The women in this movie can barely function independently. The senator’s wife and Blondie are presented, in the movie, as two women who are completely opposites of each other.

They come from different class backgrounds, but both women have more in common than what is superficially apparent in the movie. Both women are not happy with their lives. They are wishing for more out of life. Blondie wants to be like a movie star, and wants the status that comes with it. The senator’s wife has the status, but she takes drugs because she is not happy with her political life. Either way once again, we have women characters who are dissatisfied with life.

Then you have black women characters, who are maids and fourteen-year-old pregnant girls. The black women in this movie are demur, obedient and tentative. And why does Rose, the black maid to the Senator, wake up crying when he calls her. Then of course black men are mobsters and jazz musicians.

I also thought that at the beginning of the movie they presented an obvious binary in the racial tension. For example, the old white man gets up and moves when the little black girl sits down. And I am thinking is this really reality. Maybe I am just naïve, but why is this old white man “running” away from this little girl. It is just too convenient and simplistic. I also thought it was interesting that a white man dresses in black face to rob someone. When he says, “so long Amos” it situates the idea of race interestingly, because he, a white man, is able to wipe off his skin, while others are not able too. But the mob gangster conveniently says that whites, hustle and rob, and rape, they are ruled by greed. But the black guy is a hustler as well; he has been in jail three times. Why does he think that he is better than the white guy who robbed the taxi cab?

In conclusion, obviously there were many things that irritated me. See ya'll tomorrow.