The Film Life

The film is very brief on explaining the existence of racial discrimination. The beginning of the film briefly goes into some of the rules of Jim Crow, such as white only versus black only locations. Moreover, the film briefly goes into the prejudice and social construction of racial discrimination through the developing story of the white sheriff blaming the two black men for a crime that he committed himself.
The film life, in my eyes, shows the greatest example for the persistence of racial discrimination. In 1932, Claude and Ray are put in jail for an action that was committed by a white man and they took the blame for. For this crime, wherein evidence was submitted against them besides them being in the wrong place at the wrong time, …show more content…
Ray provides this central idea of how it was overcome in the past at the beginning when he drives with Claude to the South. Ray, like many other African Americans in that time period, would run from racial discrimination or respect it as an institution. This is seen when he grabs Claude to run out of the white diner and by his continued plans to escape the prison founded by white supremacy. It is my view that they never truly overcame discrimination they just ran away from discrimination. Even when the two finally escape the prison that held them for so long, they come out to a world that has seen an end in total supremacy by being able to go to a baseball game filled with whites and blacks. This escape from the white supremacy that held them captive was there only way they could overcome the discrimination that controlled their lives. Additionally, this presented the view that discrimination will just disappear given time and that everything will be happy and pleasant in the end, just give it time, which isn’t entirely true. Even today, that “happy go lucky” view that discrimination is gone isn’t true, years after Jim Crow disappeared and discrimination still exists in our society