A Raisin In The Sun Movie Analysis

When adapting a well-known and loved play into a movie, the adaptor must keep in mind how the audience will react to a new version of a beloved story. An example of this is A Raisin in the Sun, which was adapted into a movie in 2008. Lorraine Hansberry wrote the original play and Paris Qualles adapted that play into a TV movie. The main themes of the story are family, faith, and hope. Following the narrative of a lower-class family living in Chicago in 1959, the play deals with racial tension, family issues, the journey from childhood to adulthood, and how each individual person impacts others around them, within the family unit and out in the world. Some minor issues with the play were resolved in the movie, such as the role of women and how they did not seem to have lives outside of the apartment. The 2008 movie adaptation stayed true to the original framework of the play while enriching the story for a modern audience.
One of the major changes from the play to the movie is that both Mama and Ruth are given more agency; they have more power and aren’t just trapped in the house all the time. A major example of this is when Ruth goes to get the abortion. There are several extra scenes that
He made each character more three-dimensional, gave context to certain scenes, and gave agency to the female characters. Elements of Beneatha and Walter's relationship, such as their sibling dynamic, were given a little too much attention, but that isn't distracting until it overpowers the rest of the storyline. The other two main changes added to the story and enhanced the characters so that they seemed more relatable to the audience. Even though a few scenes were removed, those scenes were not essential to the play as a whole; they only added to specific parts of the story. The movie as a whole stayed true to the framework of the play while enriching the story for a modern