Love And Diane Analysis

The documentary, Love and Diane, offered an intimate and in-depth look at the struggles that a family can face in providing effective structure and defined roles that enable success within the family context. In the film, Diane, a recovering crack addict, struggles to correct mistakes she has made in the raising of her children, including her daughter, Love, and attempts to prevent these same mistakes from impacting her grandson, Love’s son, Donyaeh. A multitude of factors make this a difficult task to accomplish, and the film depicts the socioeconomic and cultural factors that can have a multi-generational impact on a family. The decisions that Diane makes evolve have ramifications that affect Love, and in turn, her behavior and actions …show more content…
The impact that financial hardships can have are on full display, as they can be preludes, or in some cases the cause of, a wealth of potential familial issues, including abandonment and drug use, which can have far-ranging repercussions on several generations of a family. The issues on display in the film give way to questions and concerns about the overarching infrastructure that is meant to support the families that face these problems. The usage and effectiveness of social services in this film, or lack thereof, can make one posit questions about the moral direction of the country. How could the U.S., a country known as, “the land of opportunity”, do so little to help those without these opportunities? Statistics reflect that it continues to be the same demographics that are affected by the cyclical problems, which can be an indication of external forces that continue to inhibit people’s abilities to flourish in society. Single-parents, particularly women, and minority groups all face a disproportionate amount of difficulties in providing the proper economic and social stability for their families, and Love and Diane was able to show how the lack of stability can create an uncertain and chaotic family future for years to come. When so much of the basis for this instability is mired in finances, the necessity for innovation is apparent. Ideas that may appear radical to some, become increasingly needed when these cycles of poverty, pain, and violence continue to perpetuate themselves. The consideration of concepts such as universal income, a proposal much in the vein of Social Security, but with a much earlier age to be an eligible recipient, become progressively more practical when confronted with the reality of poverty levels in the country, particularly relative to the large amounts of wealth that