Footloose and Drunk Driving

Cedrick Conley Footloose is a movie based out of 1984; the setting is in Beaumont, Texas with 5 high school students who were all involved in a car wreck, which where they all died. The teens were all coming from a party which had alcohol and a lot of dancing. Beaumont is a conservative town so if the parents of the teenagers knew what they were doing they wouldn’t be too fond of it. One of the teens involved in the car wreck was Bobby Moore and his father, Shaw Moore was the local town preacher; once the incident of the car wreck happened the entire tone of the church and town changed. Shaw Moore has a younger daughter Ariel, who is dealing with the changes of her dads rules becomes rebellious towards her father’s laws. One of the laws that Mr. Moore enforced was no more dancing or loud music. Ren McCormick moved to Beaumont from Boston shortly after the law was enforced, and he was unaware of the law. Ren was the type to where making friends was easy for him so he and a group of his friends wanted to do away with the law and have a senior prom. My semester topic is dealing with drinking and driving and this movie is all based around drinking and driving. Drinking and driving has a lot of effects to it; one that had a huge cause and effect in this movie was the deaths of the teenagers at a local high school. The death of the teens caused the adults of the town to vote towards a law that banned loud music and dancing. The adults of this town thought enforcing the new law would change the teenagers into not doing what they were used to doing, but instead the law made them have a rebellious act. Instead of making a new law, the town officials should have enforced the alcohol laws a lot more. In footloose the people of the town thought that bringing in another law that had nothing to do with drinking and driving would change the actions of the teenagers, but you have to remember that we are teenagers, and if there are laws then we are bound to break