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The Mask You Live
The film, “The Mask You Live” clearly brings out the challenges that boys go through in America as they strive to grow in to the kind of men that the society has stereotyped them to be. Boys are constantly being told to be tough, and so they need to show limited amounts of emotions to various events and put on a ‘mask’ to show that they are not hurting even when they truly are. The movie is quite effective at showing the problems that society has brought upon itself through making young men pick up a wrong idea of what it means to be men. What can clearly be seen in the movie is the fact that a lot of men have ended up to engage in various activities that are detrimental, not only to them but also to other people as
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