Walkout Movie Analysis

Walkout is a story based about school walkouts that happened in the sixties in East LA. I think this movie was very successful in portraying what was happening to the Mexican people during the sixties. The main theme in the movie that stuck out to me personally was simple, the students, who decided to take charge for themselves, and fight against the racist conditions they were dealing with in school. The impulsive walkouts spread to five different schools and during them the students argued for their right to speak their own language, Spanish, in the schools without being punished. They also fought to not be penalized by having their bathrooms locked anymore or to be put to work doing janitor duties. The students handed out surveys and then went to their principles and then continued to go to the school board, who rejected them. …show more content…
However, instead of all of the schools walking out at the same time on the same day, one school decided to start early, which created a chain effect as the others followed. As the police got involved, they locked down the schools and arrested multiple students, as well as, Castro. Students still joined the walkout, along with parents and other community members. To me, the central idea was that the students, who were being victimized, stood up and fought for something that is something normal for people today, integrated schools. Even when their plan did not go as originally planned; they all still got involved and battled back against society for their privileges. There is a power in numbers and having so many students involved turned into a successful way to make change