The Intouchables: Film Analysis

The films, ‘The Butler’ and ‘The Intouchables’ are representations of the ordeals that African American’s were forced to go through in the past years and the implications of such experiences to the current production of films. It is without any doubt that because of the inferior status that was given to African Americans, most films that are produced today exhibit African Americans to be of a lesser status (Toledano and Olivier 5; Ager and Aubyn 1). For example, in both of the aforementioned films, black people are conveyed as servants (Toledano and Olivier 5; Ager and Aubyn 1). To add onto this, in the film, ‘The Intouchables,’ readers are told of the actuality that Driss served a jail time for a crime that he had committed thus showing that African Americans were stereotyped as criminals by nature.
In the past years within the United States, black people were treated as an inferior race to the white community. This was seen from the actuality that African Americans were subjected into the world of slavery (Ager
In the film ‘The Intouchables’ one of the major characters. Philippe who was regarded as an affluent ‘quadriplegic’ accepted an African American, Driss, as his caregiver (Toledano and Olivier 10). However, during Driss’ time of service as Philippe’s caregiver, he was treated in a much more respectable manner even with the differences that manifested between Driss and Philippe. Even with it being that Driss was an African American while Philippe was of the white race, Philippe treated Driss to be of equal status as him. This was because Driss was the only person who did not treat him in self-pity because of his state of disability. Occurrences in this film are clear indicators to the fact that there were those who believed in equality for all persons regardless of individuals’ race or ethnicity in the history of