Race Discrimination in These Four Movies

 12 Years As A Slave

    The movie starts with a flashback or memories of Solomon Northup. He is a slave on a plantation farm. He begins to tell the story of how he came to be a slave.In early life, he was married and had two children. He is a born free black man. He is a musician who plays the violin. This is an upper-class black job for black people. Wherever he goes, everyone likes his playing of the violin. He has a wonderful wife. He lives like white people live. One day, he meets two guys who bring him a new, well-paid job. In order to prove their reality, they invite Northup to dinner. But when he goes there, they drug him and take him to a slave camp. So he is kidnapped and sold to the whites. They changed his name because he had thrown away his own freedom paper.They beat him and insulted him.

    Northup is so nave and calm that he thinks that some other men got him into this place. But actually, the men that he trusts so much are the ones that got him into this place. And like all films about black people, the south symbolizes vehemence, grief, and evilness, while the north and polestar symbolize freedom and peace. Black people always take shelter in whites to escape the wrath of whites, and we see this in the first transportation scene. We now again understand that the government doesn’t take up its task properly. When Clemen’s master comes to pick him up, he says, "It is my property." We see what they are called. In the harbor, we see a lot of black people who don't have a hand, are injured, or have scars all over their bodies.

    In the film, the whites that kidnapped Northup sell black people like a car in a plaza. They show people who want to buy a slave. Northup and the new arrivals stay there naked. They look at the teeth and mouths of black people much like they look at the teeth of horses in order to prove that they are healthy. Like always, they sing songs while working. When Northup gives his master the idea to reduce transportation costs, the man next to him asks if he is an engineer or a niggar. He tries to tell us that being an engineer is nothing like being a niggar. His first master, Ford, really likes him. After doing the task properly, he gives him a violin.

    Northup, who tries to adapt to any situation, believes that one day he will get out of here. He was hanged. But he doesn’t die with the help of Ford’s steward. He stays hanged all day, and Master Ford comes to rescue him. White people restate the Bible for their own benefit. Slavery also causes problems among white couples. Since Northup acknowledged slavery, niggas' jobs are just to work, not read and write. Northup writes a letter and agrees with a white slave to take the letter, but things do not go as he wishes, and the white slave betrays him. A slave dies in the field. While building a house, Edwin Epps comes and says, "These are not my workers, these are my property." He lacks human feelings and has no mercy for the black people that work for black people in such hot weather and in the sun.

    One day, while they are working, Mr. Parker comes to the Epps farm to save him from this hell. He introduces Northup to his family. I am very angry about him. He did not say much in most of his slavery; he didn’t talk. I know it is a dangerous thing to do, but maybe he can get out of there early. This movie raises a question: did Northup deserve this? If we say so, what about other black people who were not born free? Did they deserve this?

Do the Right Thing

    First, I hear some rap music that is about racism and the rights and liberties of black people. I listened to this rap long ago. We understand that even after Malcolm X and Martin King, racism persists and is still an obstacle to be fought against. Black people are portrayed as poor and lazy people. Black people always make fun of each other and laugh. In this movie, it is never shown that white people, other than a stammering white person, say anything about the rights or well-being of black people. Black people always get a reaction as if they're going to cause trouble, even if they don't. Even policemen treat them like they are thieves. And mostly, they call each other by aliases. For them, music is a fight or a way of fighting. Neighborhoods where black people live mean a lot to them, and they defend them very well. It is described that all ethnicities seem to be against each other. Black people never cook in their houses; they always buy something to eat. Black men are stereotyped as being horny and cheating on their wives or girlfriends.

    We see that Italians have a lot of nationalistic feelings and they don't hang pictures on their shop walls other than celebrities from their own nation. When a black person says it to the owner of a pizza shop, he replies negatively and kicks him from his pizza shop. Relationships in an Italian family can be a bit rough. They always want to challenge someone. They are also very interested in their business. When Mookie asks for his wage early, Sal says he will give it to him in the evening. Here we see that the Italians do not trust blacks at all and think blacks are capable of screwing up.

    On the other hand, they showed us the Mexicans as constantly shouting and heating people. On the other hand, we always see Mexican women as sexually active and having at least one child whose father is unknown or careless.

    The Korean people in this film are enviable by other ethnicities. Even though they came to America so recently, they can open a business. Black people are the ones who envy Koreans the most. People think that Korean people never learn English and speak it properly. I really like how they swear it out.

    They all fight with each other because the police killed a black person. Even though the older black person tries to calm everybody down, the pizza shop is beaten up by Mexicans and black people. Actually, Sal’s not trusting black people becomes true, and first Mookie throws a trash can at the pizza shop. The Heat represent ethnic clashes.And it also symbolizes death, and maybe, like the South, it is a symbol of vehemence, grief, and evilness.

Crazy Rich Asians

    Firstly, I had no idea about racism against Asian people until I chose this course. Well, I know it, but I have never searched for it. Like always, you awakened the beast in me. It is humorous what the hotel manager does to the Asian family. He is so prejudiced and I think he will get what he deserves. With the texting scenes, Asian people are portrayed as curious and envious people. Even if they are friends, they like to humiliate each other and stay one step ahead of each other. It's as if all Asians know how to use technology very well.

    After this couple goes to Singapore, the girl finds out that her girlfriend beat someone, and she is surprised. When they talk about it, they normalize fighting. Here they made the fight peculiar to Asians. Some Asians in the movie talk like upstarts. Okay, they are rich, but they praise even the very simple things they have. They see Americans as inferior and say that Americans are hungry. They do it, but with another view that they want to be like them. When the couple goes to a grandmother's party, the girl tries to drink finger juice. A man tells us that it is something that cannot be drunk. Here again, they despise Americans. Also, Asian people don’t like intimacy. Pursuing one’s passion is something that Americans do or think, and his grandmother doesn’t seem to like that phrase. There, it is absurd that the girl doesn’t say anything.

    Asian people think that because of being single, nobody can arrange parties, and by doing that in the movie, they humiliate the girl’s mother. They always ask what her family does for a living. When Nick goes to the big party, his old friend makes fun of him about Rachel. They say that she is not rich, she does not have a noble family, but she has small titts. Young families see themselves above other humans. They say that we are not from families that cook and feed their children macaroni and cheese in the microwave.

    Asian people think that family is beyond passion. In spite of knowing that she has no big family, Aunt Eleanor tells Rachel directly about it. Asian people think that all Americans are selfish. Trying to be part of a wealthy Asian family, Rachel finally gives up on everything and intimidates Nick's mother. It's a shame that at the end of the movie, the producers don’t combine wealth and nobility with poverty. Well, Nick and Rachel are together, and Rachel is now in the family, but Michael Teo, who enters the family later by marriage, is out of the family.

The Hate You Gave

    My close friend suggested I watch this movie. The Hate U Give focuses on how society utilizes misconceptions about black people to justify prejudice and violence against them. I read online that because it contains harsh language and discusses crucial subjects like racism and the intersection of police brutality, the movie’s book is prohibited or challenged in schools. Black people are so scared and stuck that they tell their little kids what to do when they encounter the police. They also give information about their rights. They also tend to take ownership of the place and neighborhood they live in, and they know everyone. But they don’t like schools in their living area.

    It's good when white people say the words they're used to using, but when black people say them, it becomes absurd. In the movie, it is shown that whites always imitate blacks. Similarly, whites greet blacks like whites, using similar words in similar situations. Starr is very sick of these resemblances. Black women are shown as glamorous types. The black entertainment scene is described as being full of drugs and as a bad place.

    After the party, the police pull Starr and Khalil over. A policeman asks Khalil where he found her. I think there is some bad treatment of black women here, as if Starr were an object, the policeman asks. When Khalil reaches into the car to get the comb, the police shoot him. In the police station, police officers ask him different and unrelated questions, like "Is Khalil using drugs or selling them?" In the film, it is also discussed that the families of black victims are put on television in a bad and exhausted state. We see April Oprah in Khalil’s Funeral as the protector of blacks.

    The Whites like to make black deaths a holiday in the school, and Starr doesn't like it at all. Such events adversely affect not only the blacks involved, but also the relations of other blacks with whites. For example, although Starr is involved, she hides it from her white girlfriend. Due to years of white persecution and oppression, Starr's father is angry that Starr is with a white boy. Again, with the pressure of the whites, the blacks become hostile to each other, and an armed attack is carried out on Starr's house by some blacks. At the end, she gives a speech in a public place and participates in riots. We see where the chaos started by the whites is dragging a little boy. We see what evil the chaos has done to a small child.