Social Problems In Brotherly Love

Every year millions of movies are produced and filmed for the enjoyment of people all over the world. We wait for our favorite films to be released to spend two hours in the theaters to only walk out and not truly digest what we just witnessed. Most movies today are starting to be based off of real American problems, social problems and contracts. Many people who going to view these films have no idea because most of them are subjects to the same social problems they are watching. Others have no idea about these ongoing problems due to the lack of knowledge of what a social problem actually is. According to Professor Nia Reed a social problem can be defined as “A condition that undermines the well-being of someone or all members of a society …show more content…
Throughout the entire film there is none not on going violence from murder, robbery, gambling, selling drugs, to petty theft. Many may argue that the amount of violence and crime showed in this film is mispresented and does not happen on a day to day base. But the fact is that crimes of this nature do happen in low income neighborhoods on a regular. Ninety-Five percent of the crimes in the film are caused by June, and as a consequence not only does his family but his community suffer from his decisions. Within the hour and thirty minute movie, one person is shot, six people are killed, one robbery and a home invasion are committed. And in the end families and communities are left to grieve the loss of their loved ones and …show more content…
Functionalism is the idea that society works as a whole and has interrelated parts. In other words everything or one has a way of effecting something else whether it be positive or negative. In Chris’s case it is very ludicrous how he finds himself being fictional proof of the functionalism theory. Just after he explain to Jackie that someone has to commit crimes in order for private prisons to make money, he sends himself to the same money hungry prisons. The entire plot of the Brotherly Love can be considered as a latent function. According to Professor Nia Reed a latent function is “Factors that lead to an unforeseen or unexpected consequence.” June lived his life never thinking that one day his decisions and consequence would never catch up to him. Chris’s actions to avenge his cousin’s death came very surprisingly and unanticipated. Latent function can be viewed as a dominion effect, each and every decision will effect something else some one or