The Cinderella Man is a movie that is based on the true story of a boxer in the middle of the Great Depression. How through boxing he had once been on the top, and when the Great Depression started he lost it all, as many did to, but slowly through boxing he managed to get his family to survive and inspire the people to fight to.
When the movie begins, November 30, 1928, James J. Braddock the main character is in a boxing match that he wins. After the match he goes to his house and his family. The thing about this scene is that is right after match he had just gotten paid for the fight and stuff. But what is impressive is that they were fine they had a nice house, and big happy family with no worries. They didn’t seem the type of people that would lack of there necessities.
On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started. In the movie four years into the great depression James and Mae, his wife, have three kids, live in this one room apartment, lacked enough food to feed themselves, didn’t even have enough money to buy milk, so they had to water it down for it to last. James was unemployed, he couldn’t get a fight to do to his hand, and he couldn’t get a job either at the docks. By that time, four years into the depression, there were 12,830,000 unemployed people. Today there are 7,258,000 unemployed people in …show more content…
James tries everything to move his family forward but he couldn’t . The hunger was so much that his oldest son robbed a piece of salami but James made his return it. People were robbing not because they were robbers but because they didn’t have enough to survive. People were going to the emergency relieve to ask for money but many times they couldn’t pay back. At one point James goes there, because he needed money to be able to get his kids back, he even had to beg for money destroying his pride if he had any
When the movie begins, November 30, 1928, James J. Braddock the main character is in a boxing match that he wins. After the match he goes to his house and his family. The thing about this scene is that is right after match he had just gotten paid for the fight and stuff. But what is impressive is that they were fine they had a nice house, and big happy family with no worries. They didn’t seem the type of people that would lack of there necessities.
On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started. In the movie four years into the great depression James and Mae, his wife, have three kids, live in this one room apartment, lacked enough food to feed themselves, didn’t even have enough money to buy milk, so they had to water it down for it to last. James was unemployed, he couldn’t get a fight to do to his hand, and he couldn’t get a job either at the docks. By that time, four years into the depression, there were 12,830,000 unemployed people. Today there are 7,258,000 unemployed people in …show more content…
James tries everything to move his family forward but he couldn’t . The hunger was so much that his oldest son robbed a piece of salami but James made his return it. People were robbing not because they were robbers but because they didn’t have enough to survive. People were going to the emergency relieve to ask for money but many times they couldn’t pay back. At one point James goes there, because he needed money to be able to get his kids back, he even had to beg for money destroying his pride if he had any