The movie Shelter (2007) is a story of a young man Zach who had dreams of going off to art school, but his dreams are taken from him because of the need to take care of his needy sister and his nephew. He takes a dead-end job and focuses his time drawing and surfing. He eventually falls in love with his best-friends brother Shaun; Shaun is older and begins to influence him to follow his dreams of going try for art school again along with come to terms with his sexuality. Shelter has a great examples of the building of relationships, the difference of cultures, the influence of individual differences, the dark side of relationships. And I believe that this movie and my life have a lot of mirror image topics and scenes that represent me and what
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I was the same way, I was forced into a corner when I was younger to help take care of my brothers with my grandmother cause my mother had no time or will to do so, so I gave up my art school scholarship to San Francisco and got a lame job at Target to help support my family, I too had a girlfriend at the time as a cover to hide my true sexuality and I withdrew away from my friends and peers and it took me years to get back into my education and to create healthy well functioning relationships with other people just like Zach eventually did at the end. The difference in cultures, cultures can be geographical, racial, sexual, gender based. In the movie, cultures differences are shown between the poor and the rich. The poor characters are shown working and being miserable cause they are always struggling and the rich are seen happy going to parties. The gray area was surfing, this culture was shared by both groups and everyone was seen as happy and equal. My culture was the gay culture, the culture that I felt was wrong and I tried …show more content…
My grandmother is a sweet woman, but her way of thinking was influenced in believing that the idea of only heterosexuality was right and homosexuality was wrong. Years later when I came out to her she changed her thinking and supports my life, and loves me as much as she did when she thought I was straight. This happened to Zach and his sister at the end of the movie, her opinion changes and she realizes that it doesn 't matter what Zach is just that her brother is a good man who takes the best care of Cody and leaves him in Zach 's
I was the same way, I was forced into a corner when I was younger to help take care of my brothers with my grandmother cause my mother had no time or will to do so, so I gave up my art school scholarship to San Francisco and got a lame job at Target to help support my family, I too had a girlfriend at the time as a cover to hide my true sexuality and I withdrew away from my friends and peers and it took me years to get back into my education and to create healthy well functioning relationships with other people just like Zach eventually did at the end. The difference in cultures, cultures can be geographical, racial, sexual, gender based. In the movie, cultures differences are shown between the poor and the rich. The poor characters are shown working and being miserable cause they are always struggling and the rich are seen happy going to parties. The gray area was surfing, this culture was shared by both groups and everyone was seen as happy and equal. My culture was the gay culture, the culture that I felt was wrong and I tried …show more content…
My grandmother is a sweet woman, but her way of thinking was influenced in believing that the idea of only heterosexuality was right and homosexuality was wrong. Years later when I came out to her she changed her thinking and supports my life, and loves me as much as she did when she thought I was straight. This happened to Zach and his sister at the end of the movie, her opinion changes and she realizes that it doesn 't matter what Zach is just that her brother is a good man who takes the best care of Cody and leaves him in Zach 's