Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Movie Reflection
I thought the movie tried to be informative, but I felt like it had a very liberal bias to it and didn't necessarily look at the situation objectively. I disagreed that the children should have had all their healthcare and education taken from them. They are just kids and have no say in where they live. However, I thought that their wasn't really much of a rational conservative viewpoint. The teacher and the librarian who were for the proposition came off very negatively and I wish that they would have had someone with knowledge speak for that view. The people at the rallies who were for the proposition were stereotyped as hicks, and I am sure that not all the people who supported it were like that. There is a certain validity in saying that the government's resources should be allocated to those who pay taxes. I do think that the proposition was too extreme, but that some of the ideolgies behind it were not as radical as depicted.
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I completely agree - 187 was too extreme, but there are two sides to the argument, and only one side was really presented in the movie. In lecture, I also felt as only the liberal side of the issue was addressed. I would have liked to have seen a more balanced account of the issue.
There is no doubt that the movie had a slant towards the rejection of Proposition 187, but I believe it portrayed a lot of the complexities of dealing with an issue that affected so many people in such a wide variety of ways. I agree with Amee and Alex that the teacher wasn't the best spokesperson for the passing of prop. 187. Perhaps someone from the California legislature could have been more illustrative of the issues at stake in 1994.
I agree with everyone's point that the movie was made in order to make people see that Proposition 187 was a problem. Even so, I think the fact that the teacher who was trying to help the immigrants all throughout the movie turns out to vote to pass Proposition 187. I think this shows that this is a very complex issue. It perhaps would have been more informative to have a neutral party present some of the information.
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