The director Steven Soderbergh goal was to show all sides of the drug trafficking work, from the poor, to the rich, to the king pin drug dealers. He aimed to show what the real root cause of drug trafficking is and what is the evils of drugs can be. This film portrayed all aspects equally and his point was strong and extremely powerful; some of scenes seemed dreadfully stereotypical and not fair to Mexican people, Black people, and even white females. The cinematography use of color in this film was an excellent way of portraying the multiracial cast either in a dark and grimy yellow color or safe and cold blue color, but the different colors focused on the different races in the film. In this paper I will point out the exaggerated stereotypes
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They walked to purchase drugs from a black person through a small hole in a door; the editing in the scene cuts to where you only view the drug dealer’s face in the hole in the middle of the door and then the camera pans down to the little hole where you observe he slides the drugs to them. They get a hotel room together in the awful neighborhood, get high and decide to have sex for the reason that she wants to get high and agrees to anything. In this scene are several examples of racial stereotypes like rich white kids purchase drugs from black men in inner-city neighborhoods, when in fact the majority kids purchase drugs from their own race and in their own middle class neighborhoods (csdp.org.) Another stereotype is that black men and Latino men are the only ones who sell drugs, like the black person selling out of the hole in the door. A stereotype about women, that an addicted female on drugs will do anything sexually for drugs. Soderburgh covered several stereotypes in this scene, but there are several more throughout the film. Wakefield Caroline’s father has come to the realization that his daughter is addicted to freebasing cocaine or crack, since he came home early and found her smoking in the bathroom and she was extremely high. The close-up shot of her face, let us know how addicted she was and that she did not care if her father found out. The Judge has her admitted into a rehab
They walked to purchase drugs from a black person through a small hole in a door; the editing in the scene cuts to where you only view the drug dealer’s face in the hole in the middle of the door and then the camera pans down to the little hole where you observe he slides the drugs to them. They get a hotel room together in the awful neighborhood, get high and decide to have sex for the reason that she wants to get high and agrees to anything. In this scene are several examples of racial stereotypes like rich white kids purchase drugs from black men in inner-city neighborhoods, when in fact the majority kids purchase drugs from their own race and in their own middle class neighborhoods (csdp.org.) Another stereotype is that black men and Latino men are the only ones who sell drugs, like the black person selling out of the hole in the door. A stereotype about women, that an addicted female on drugs will do anything sexually for drugs. Soderburgh covered several stereotypes in this scene, but there are several more throughout the film. Wakefield Caroline’s father has come to the realization that his daughter is addicted to freebasing cocaine or crack, since he came home early and found her smoking in the bathroom and she was extremely high. The close-up shot of her face, let us know how addicted she was and that she did not care if her father found out. The Judge has her admitted into a rehab