Summary Of The Film 'Imperial Dreams'

The movies I am about analyze are from different time periods. I will be comparing and contrasting The Broken strings released in 1942, Directed by Berard B ray. and Imperial dreams released in 2016 Directed by Malik Vithal. In both movies the main characters have to strive, but are faced with completely dissimilar situations. In Broken dreams a noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical. In Imperial Dreams Bambi is a recently released gangster, devoted to living an ethical lifestyle for his young son Day. As he struggles to find work, he attempts to make a living as a writer, finding solace in his words to distract him from …show more content…
he gets a ride to the dmv from a friend expecting to get his license as quick as he can. the Dmv denies him his license because he has unpaid child support of $15,000, which was never filed by his wife as they were never seperate. He finds out later that the social service program his wife was on filed for child support. Bambi feels that the system has failed him. Arthur feels frustrated everyday he has to teach others to play Violin so he can earn, but cannot play himself. He feels like a broken man as his life revolved arround playing the Violin. The African american cast in broken Strings feels unfamiliar compared to african americans that are portrayed in today's movies. even though there was much more poverty and struggle in the african american communities during the 40s that is not how it is portrayed in the movie. The way the cast talks, acts and looks is completely different as if the director were trying to improve the image of african …show more content…
Some one calls social services on Bambi, they spot his car, and tell him that he had put Day's life in danger by letting him sleep in the car. Bambi does his best to plead with the them but they take Day away, I was expecting a happy ending but I think the director wanted to show reality. In broken strings Aurthur becomes tolerant of letting Walter play Jazz on stage, the crowd claps they love Walton, and suddenly Aurthur's hand starts to clap his hand fully recovers, very silly ending. I expected the Broken strings to show more poverty and struggless, as it was made in the 1940s when racism and poverty was more prevalent but It was the opposite. Through the whole movie I felt like it was fake, they were not showing the reality, as if the director wanted people to think in a certain way about african americans. I think there was a big switch in african american films around the 1960s. When I was looking at movies before the 1960s most of them felt positive the movies after 1960's were more focused on violence and crime which I think sells