In the film Bordertown the filmmaker is trying to encoded a sense of fear, this is opinion of what the filmmakers was encoding. As a Hispanic man watching this film I got the idea that they were sending a signal stating that no matter how educated you are, no matter how much money you have you will still be beneath that of the white man. The emotional effects that a viewer can have is definitely a negative one. When Miss. Elwell called Johnny Ramirez a savage, though she might have been joking around it could be taken very offensive in the Hispanic community.
In the film Bordertown the filmmaker is trying to encoded a sense of fear, this is opinion of what the filmmakers was encoding. As a Hispanic man watching this film I got the idea that they were sending a signal stating that no matter how educated you are, no matter how much money you have you will still be beneath that of the white man. The emotional effects that a viewer can have is definitely a negative one. When Miss. Elwell called Johnny Ramirez a savage, though she might have been joking around it could be taken very offensive in the Hispanic community.
It was a widely held belief that Indigenous people were an inferior race and would eventually die out. Many policies enacted on them had a greatly detrimental effect upon their cultural heritage. Policies such as the forced Indigenous people off the land and into government reserves, the assimilation policy tried to force Indigenous people to adopt a Western lifestyle by giving up their traditional lifestyle and beliefs. They were expected to live and act like ‘white Australians’ but were denied equal wages, work conditions and welfare benefits received by other Australians. Other policies attempted to ‘breed-out’ Indigenous Australians by pairing an Indiginous individual with a white partner.
Apess begins his story talking about the conditions of the reservation that Indians are living in and having to deal with, and blames the white men for these conditions. This is due to them “supposedly” being the masters or overseers’ of the reservations. He talks about how the white men could care less if the Indians lived or died. That the white men would take a lot of the Indians vegetation and taking their timber which is of most value to the Indians or any other items for free and then selling it to get a profit for themselves off of it. He feels that with no education the Indians are feel they cannot take care of themselves or their land.
Many races and ethnic groups are often hurt by these stereotypes. So long as I do not have this stereotype due to my isolation from this culture, I viewed a different picture through this movie. First of all, the movie Smoke Signals gave me a colorful picture of what life is like on an Indian reservation in modern times. For me, it was pretty sad but very philosophic life story which happened with real people. These people keep their distinctive traditional Coeur d'Alene Indian’s lifestyle.
It is shot through delicacy, beauty, compassion and a sense of loss, like any other film the director Denis has created. White Material takes place in an unknown nameless country at an incomprehensible time. The historical order is even unclear, and also the characters in the film are confusing because we can’t describe their relationship to one another. For example, I thought that Maria Vial was married to her husband, but as it turns out he cheated on her and they were divorced. The type of unclearness that is shown in the film leads to confusion that frustrates the audience itself.
Breaking the promises would have shown the Native Americans that the settlers thought little of their intelligence, and also would instil a lack of trust in the settlers, as now every apparently solemn vow to not attack certain areas or to treat the Plains Indians better etc. could now never be taken as the absolute truth and the Native Americans would have spent time wondering what treaty was to be broken and when. The second factor I shall look at will be the US army and its leaders. Men like
Violence in movies has always been a controversial issue, and author Vivian Sobchack concludes that these movies showcasing violence have no "moral agenda." The reality of the matter is a critique of violence is not possible and requiring that a movie should follow a moral agenda would simply limit the creativity and imagination of filmmakers. Freedom of speech allows each citizen the free will to express themselves and these movies
Many of the Native Americans suffered from disease, starvation and death because of the forced relocation to the west. A change in climate and environment did not assist with the relocation of this society that had first existed on the American soil. This tragic incident is most remembered as the “The Trail of Tears”. Furthermore, the lack of compensation, by the government, to the Native Americans destroyed, the already diminishing, numbers of their eastern tribes. Many Americans opposed the removal of the Native Americans and argued that they too had been civilized and should be allowed to remain on the homelands, specifically Davey Crocket.
In spite of all efforts these boarding schools produced the opposite. It bred more racism in the aspect that all Indian children presumed all white to be unsympathetic and harsh. They fully expected to be hated and abused by every white settler they saw. In the end white man may have taken their land, but they also took away their