People Like Us Film Analysis

What if each person walked around the earth naked? With no clothes, accessories or belongings to indicate social class? This is would be interesting to see because in the documentary, People Like Us, it was seen how much people judge each other by their outward appearance and personal belongings. The first thought about someone is made with the observers eyes, that first meeting could forever change the way you see that person. With that first encounter you walk away with a preconceived idea of their class level, income and social skills. All humans judge and evaluate each person by their outward appearance. Keeping this in mind, is there a situation that the judgment stops and we close our eyes to outward appearance? I believe the higher atop …show more content…
Matt was interviewed and he was found to hate the uniform his mother wears everyday. He’s embarrassed of the place he lives in and of they way his brother and mother dresses. He tries to clean up before his friends comes over and dresses differently to put on a facade. Matt is embarrassed of his family because he thinks he can do better than the hand he was dealt with at birth. Tammy doesn’t understand why he needs to try and be better than his family. She has accepted their class level and is just working on stabilizing the family and making her dream of being a teacher become a reality. Matt is trying to fit in with nicer clothes and an upper class attitude. Fourteen years later Tammy is still working the same job and Matt is all grown up. He has a child and didn’t finish school because he needed to take care of them. He now doesn’t complain about his mother’s job. He just does his work around the house and tries to keep a job and provide for his family. Once Matt grew up and realized he was at the bottom of the social ladder, being apart of the upper class didn’t matter so much anymore. Once you’re at the bottom, the floor is there to support you so you don’t need to worry about falling any farther.
Whether it’s high schoolers, adults or even family, every human being with a higher social class than the bottom will judge people. It’s the privileged people that think they can dictate the class level of others, but it’s the poor people who don’t see up or down the social ladder, they just see the rung of the ladder that they are stuck on. The people above you on this ladder are afraid of falling into the abyss of low social class, but when you’re in the dark abyss you become blinded to expectations and how much higher the ladder