RCG ; The Longest Yard :)

This week in class we briefly discussed the upper, lower, and middle class ads from the superbowl commercials. We also got to talking about our reading assignment naked capitalists for our homework assignment. It discusses how pornography is such a increasingly growing industry that you do not hear a lot about because people want to ignore it like it does not exist or simply because they are embarrassed to admit they have bought or watched it.

We watched the beginning of the film "The Longest Yard" starring Adam Sandler. It is about a former professional athlete who shaved a football game and it ruined his reputation, power, and prestige. He gets sent to a prison in Texas and ends up becoming the hero in the movie. The whole movie should be an easy decision who to cheer for, however, the whole time you want the bad guys in the prison to beat the guards in the football game they put together. In reality you would believe the guards are the "good" guys but this movie really makes them out to be the bad guys because they are a bunch of racist rednecks who treat the prisoners with no respect at all and it is very unprofessional and cruel. That is why i believe people side with the convicts because even if they are in jail they deserve to be treated like human beings and not like trash. This movie really teaches a good lesson about many different things that comes up in this class Race/Class/Gender. Even though someone has power, prestige, and property does not make them the better person sometimes they take advantage of that and it makes them kind of evil and treat people like they do not matter. I really like this movie because at the end you realize sometimes going through tough or bad times only makes you a stronger person and a better person. :)