Bad Boys Film Analysis

Let us take a minute to step outside of ourselves and into an alien society that often goes hidden or forgotten. In this world, the habitants rarely experience the sunrise or sunset, nor do they hear the song of birds or the playful bark of a dog. As annoying as it might seem at first, these persons will never even hear the cry of a toddler as she begs for candy at the grocery store or the halfway-honk of a car horn from the elderly person whose car you almost hit. Those in this alien society never see, hear, touch, smell, or taste what many other citizens do; rather, they have their own unique set of experiences. This alien society is the United States inmate population, and rather than the sight of the sun or the sound of animal, they report spectacles of abuse alongside the cries of stabbing and rape victims. Now, the purpose of this paper is not to sympathize with these inmates; rather, this paper calls a problem to attention. As these inmates replace the sight of the sun with images of assault, the chirp of birds with the screams of a stabbing victim, and the honk of a horn with …show more content…
As reported in Inmates Sexual Assault, stronger inmates usually prey upon the smaller, weaker inmates. In the film Bad Boys, the directors portray this theme using the characters of Tweety and Viking. The directors cast these two characters as the “Alpha Males” of the juvenile correction facility. Tweety and Viking assign jobs to other inmates, benefit from cigarette sales, and strike fear into all of the other inmates. At one point, viewers of the film witness Tweety walk into the cell of a younger, smaller boy. At this point, the young man screams as Viking steps outside and watches guard. Viewers can reasonably assume that Tweety molests the young boy. What viewers do not realize, is that one day this young boy will reenter society with the physical and psychological scars of this