Brief Summary
Several stories are told during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of characters, such as a police detective with a drug addict mother, a thieving younger brother. Two car thieves who are constantly haunting on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets.
Discuss a Character
Officer John Ryan appears to be extremely racist in his multiple encounters with African Americans. Although officer Ryan is an extremely verbal person, his use of nonverbal communication speaks even louder. this character stands out to me as it shows how downgrading and racist society and it shows how only 19 years ago it was completely different. Officer John Ryan also showed groping a woman, this surprised me as it showed he thought that because he had a semi-important job that he had superior value over everyone and thought he could do whatever he wanted. Officer John Ryan I think was a very egotistical person as he uses his ego as a power to get woman rather than his personality
Directors Intentions
There is an underlining moral to the film is to treat others with respect and have tolerance towards people of all kinds, regardless of race, gender, or age. Haggis promotes this moral theme throughout the film by constantly bringing up the issue of race. The storyline of the film follows the daily lives of several people and shows how people get abused or mistreated just due to their gender or race. This time when the movie was made racism and sexism was happening a lot and wasn’t educated to be wrong and this movie was showing how the issues are wrong and disgraceful and showed how what people thought was a small problem was occurring to people every day and that this lifestyle for people was wrong.
How did Haggis use stereotypes to manipulate viewers
Research the setting of LA
During the period of 2000-2005 LA where this movies time was based there were obviously big event that happend ranging from terrorism to racism and to people dead in riots.
Cinematography techniques
Digetic – Non-Digetic Mise-en-scene