A Theme of Social Classes in The Film People Like Us

In watching the movie  People Like Us, you see how it follows the lives of two specific socio-economic classes in a documentary styled presentation of the 'Upper Class' in parts of the East coast and the lives of the 'Lower Class' in the mid west. This film is about how rich people see themselves and how they see the poor in the U.S. Sometimes even when you're struggling to understand what's coming out of the mouths of some of these people, and you're struggling to understand what's going on in society.

It is quite clear that the U.S. is not as progressive as can be attested by those in the emerging middle class. In the U.S., there is a system of social status that is quite clear to those who are trying to achieve their American Dream, only to encounter a glass wall. This is a really good documentary that thoroughly explores this issue while giving voice to people from the different classes. The movie People Like Us handles an inquiry once in a while tended to so expressly in the famous media: Are for the most part Americans made equivalent or are some more equivalent than others? People Like Us, this film doesn't offer a Marxian examination of one gathering's misuse of another, nor does it commend the ethics of the entrepreneur framework. Or maybe, this prevalent history depicts a liberal gathering of Americans from different areas and significantly increasingly various financial gatherings: favored New York 'WASPS, upwardly versatile African Americans in North Carolina, at that point you have the lowest pay permitted by law laborers who are profoundly battling in Ohio, glad Georgia' rednecks, 'industrial suburbanites in New Jersey, at that point factions if a great deal of Texas secondary school understudies, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

One thing People Like Us does truly well is delineate what life resembles for individuals living in an assortment of class positions. We hear an assortment of individuals talk about the various manners by which they know about and worried about their group position. Notwithstanding offering a large group of convincing instances of articulations of class personality, in these ways the film likewise outlines how emblematic interactionism can be applied to understanding social class. In these manners the film likewise delineates how representative interactionism can be applied to understanding social class. What every one of these reflections show are manners by which classes are recognized and how limits are kept up around class positions. Viewing the film People Like Us you will perceive how they delineate the images we use to recognize class and manners by which those images are significant in our public activities.

In the motion picture you will perceive how strains between class positions are strikingly shown in the film, as well. In the film we'll see a dark ladies in a salon discussing Jack and Jill, an enrollment association that attempts to help future African American pioneers by reinforcing kids through making of administration, volunteers administration, charitable giving, and city obligation. One of the women in the salon notes a tension, saying, “Here we fought to be invited into the golf clubs, the country club. Then we start our own club, and yet we have to be invited. 'While the film deals with the interaction between race and social class, one drawback is that it does not look closely at how social class intersects with other identities. It also does not really discuss the ways in which circumstances for immigrants, or LGBT individuals intersect with social class.

You also can see in the movie how clothes and fashion alone offer plenty of fodder for discussion in the film. They showed how wearing the same clothes all the time was blue collar. Then you see in the movie where Matt criticizes his mother Tammy, who works at a Burger King, saying “Sometimes I am embarrassed by her, cause she wears that Burger King outfit every day.” Also in the movie you can see how when it comes to Tammy story that you’ll get a feeling that you’re invisible and in the US that means no matter what you do it isn’t enough and it means that people look down on you and judge you for where you are without trying to help. Like I know that there are poor people in the US and America but you will get the sense of not knowing it was like that in the world regarding poverty. In a contrasting example, in watching the movie towards the end of the film a teenager at a picnic table with several upper middle class notes that around the table, just about everyone here has something from Abercrombie & Fitch on. As you can see the film really hits and shows some important topics and details about society as a whole.

When watching People Like Us, you can see that if indeed you’re poor and from somewhere else and then you try your best to make it, people from your old class may look at you different since you moved on without them and then the people in the class you moved to look down on you since you did not come from there. For that reason, Dana’s story is also the story that has most resonated with me. Coming from a working class background, I think that if you’re sent off to college others will struggle with the dilemma of trying to exist in both worlds. Nevertheless, the examples of class mobility dilemmas in the story of Dana and throughout the rest of the movie are another reason why the movie maintains so much interest. Among the other useful social class depictions in the film, People Like Us let students struggling with mobility in the social class know there are many others like them.