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Philadelphia Movie Analysis
In Philadelphia there are many families facing challenges like each one of us. They face social, mental, and physical struggles that attempt to destroy their character and drive to achieve their goals but in this life, some make it out but many of them it was too late to change their life around. This film makes you ironically image a image of crabs in a cardboard box that’s attempting to escape. What would you notice? Well, some of them will make it out with wires and tires but the only way they would eventually escape if they pull the ones around them down to continue trying to reach their goal. However, it destroys friendships and creates enemies that also tend to add on to the societal burials against you. You would think that many people …show more content…
In this case, it shows how African American families are living in poverty as well as unsafe areas. It also identities the sacrifices made to provide an adequate amount of food for families. In order to provide food, shelter and protection the oldest brother had to sacrifice his life and become head of the household. The oldest brother name was Eric (June), his dream was to make it to the pros,however, the death of his father focused him to drop his dreams his basketball dream. Nevertheless, he did not forget about his dream entirely, he just invested those dreams in his brother Sergio. Since June is the man of the household, his goal is to much sure Jackie attend music school downtown and Sergio However, June found that selling illicit drugs would bring convenient cash. He knew that selling illicit drugs was only temporary money, so throughout the movie he constantly said, he was trying to get his brother, sister and not to forget his mother out of the dangerous streets of Philadelphia. Even though, June sacrificed his dreams for his family, he made sure that his brother Sergio and sister Jackie had everything they wanted as well as

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