Throughout history film has had a powerful influence on messages portrayed by its directors and makers. Film effectively addresses the issues present within past and modern day society in order to change societies ways and make for a better future. Successful British – Indian Director Gurinder Chadha, created her romantic comedy in the year 2000 ‘What’s cooking? portrays a strong message about the importance of family, friendship, tradition, tolerance and acceptance. The film centres around 4 multi-cultural families in Los Angeles, America, the Mexican Avila family, Jewish Seelig family, Vietnamese Nguyen family and African – American Williams family during their thanksgiving celebrations. Each family faced their own set of challenges, issues and conflicts but all come together to celebrate the important thanksgiving holiday and mend their families. Throughout this essay the issues surrounding same sex marriages, interracial relationships, infidelity and family pressures throughout contemporary America will be addressed and explored.
Throughout contemporary society, cultures throughout America did not encourage …show more content…
The Mexican Avila family was rocked when their mother Lizzie’s husband cheated on their mother with another relative. The betrayal hugely affected the family and the children’s relationship with their father. When confronted with what his betrayal had done Javier did not show much sympathy or regret for his actions and automatically referred back to wanting to be with his wife again and her to forgive him. Within American culture and around the world infidelity is a growing emotional problem that is increasingly happening more and splitting up families. Infidelity has always been around within contemporary society but has hugely increased more because of the newer generation having different views on the importance of
Throughout contemporary society, cultures throughout America did not encourage …show more content…
The Mexican Avila family was rocked when their mother Lizzie’s husband cheated on their mother with another relative. The betrayal hugely affected the family and the children’s relationship with their father. When confronted with what his betrayal had done Javier did not show much sympathy or regret for his actions and automatically referred back to wanting to be with his wife again and her to forgive him. Within American culture and around the world infidelity is a growing emotional problem that is increasingly happening more and splitting up families. Infidelity has always been around within contemporary society but has hugely increased more because of the newer generation having different views on the importance of