REVERSED DYNAMICS - Movie Review Example

1) In the essay The Ethnic Trump by Gish Sen, the talks about her son Luke, and the hurdles she and her husband Dave have to encounter to maketheir son embrace his Chinese as well as Irish roots. One can very well establish that this dilemma faced by their son is a complication which has directly risen from the interracial relationship of his parents. The writer observes that her son refuses to identify his Chinese connection and denies going to a Chinese school, skin to societal and peer pressure.

This attitude is the consequence of the stigma associated with interracial relationships and it is due to such complications, that people fear to tread on this path.2) Interracial relationships have always been debatable ground for society as a whole and irrespective of gender; people in interracial relationships do grab unwelcome eyeballs from their near and dear ones. However, there are many significant instances which prove that women and men are indeed viewed and judged on a different scale.

In the movie Something New, Kenya, a black woman is denounced by her mother and younger brother for blind dating, and moreover, dating a white man, while her brother forms a new relationship every few weeks, and is still the object of their mothers adulation. Also, in the essay written by Ruben Martinez, the author being of brown skin is rejected by white girls. He mentions; I hadnt stopped to notice that there wasnt a single interracial couple on the entire campus, except for a few Anglo-Asian pairings (always white boy and Asian girl; never the other way around).

(Martinez 255). Thus, the gender bias again comes in the forefront, although in a lopsided manner.Therefore, in spite of not being tilted completely towards one side, there is a prominent gender bias, while evaluating interracial relationships. 3) In the movie Something New, Kenya Mc Queen, a successful businesswoman draws flak from her family and friends when she begins dating Brian, a white man who is a landscaper. To an extent, I agree with the statement that if she had been a man and had been dating a white girl, the dynamics would have been reversed to a great extent.

There is a particular scene in the movie where Kenyas brother has an argument with her when he learns that she went on a blind date, which further heats up when he learns that her date was white. The significant pointer here is that her brother himself is portrayed as a Casanova, while he reprimands his elder sister for going on blind dates. On a similar note, Kenyas parents, specially her mother, seem in awe of their son besides his shortcomings, while being critical of their daughter over minor hassles.

Thus, there is indeed a strong case of prejudice on the basis of gender.