Introduction
What is sometimes rejected, but what must be acknowledged is a racial problem. The fate of the underclass is not properly seen as another (though serious) example of economic inequality (Helpman, Itskhoki et al. 2010). The residents of this black community and environmental employment in England in that era, were different, vulnerable to fundamentalist diseases, stigmatized by their cultural style, socially isolated, experiencing a sense of internationalization and frustration, with communal access to mutual support. Criminal offenses, sexual immorality, and their inability to do so are often the object of public humiliation. In short, they are saddened by the affair. It does not need the power to understand how this fall is related to the shameful history of this country’s black race relations. Billy sees neighbors and parents who try to sell their property so they can fight to get some money. This is the first unacceptable behavior seen by Billy during his childhood.
Body 1
The film’s co-author, Terrell, talked about the subject of black masculinity in the film, explaining why Chiron tried so hard to change his personality. He argues that communal communities seek to obtain them in other ways. She said that one of the ways in which men in the communal community sought to improve their masculine identity, knowing that it often provided a means of deep social control in patriarchal societies.
In Moonlight, masculinity has been described as harsh and aggressive, in the behavior of young black men in a group of late teens. Moonlight explores the effects of anemia felt in this black man. As McRaney points out, alleviating these emotions often coincides with their brain’s attempts to understand, in ways that can be easily toxic. Nevertheless, Chiron does not see his desire to create a homosexual relationship as inconsistent with his desire to assert his masculinity, and throughout the movie this false duality is the source of much inner conflict and disturbance to his character.
In the ever-present situation, the black body, which can be viewed internally as weak in American society, must be resilient to living, as the last known identity is very masculine and dominant. Beyond just race, you explain how institutional and systemic barriers, as well as cultural deficiencies, prevent poor black people from poverty and out of control (Scarpetta, Sonnet et al. 2010).
In fact, they put a lot of pressure on the delegation. Ethnic and social relations are under a lot of pressure because of the financial crisis caused by the economic backing.
Before the economic crisis, the people of the city ghetto are in a difficult situation and the economic crisis exacerbates their problems. Unemployment is high now before depression, and I’m not just talking about unemployment. So I’m talking not just about unemployment, rising unemployment rates but also about the many people who give up looking for work (Eriksson and Rooth 2014).
The percentage of adults, and especially the percentage of young people who work in many urban environments, is very low. It creates problems in the long run, because an unemployed environment is far more dangerous than an environment where people are poor, but work on wages (Layard, Nickell et al. 1994, Pissarides 2000). So difficult for the general black environment because of racial segregation, it is a real problem for the inner city resources, because they are not only far from the area of employment growth, but they do not even have the means to get there (Helliwell and Huang 2014).
It is very difficult to find in the midst of this productive environment the spatial concentration of the weak ethnic groups. Such neighborhoods, commonly known as “ghettoes,” function on a social, mental and economic level (Kaplan and Menzio 2016). Ghettos cities have different ethnic communities throughout history, but they are never as segregated and poor as those found in African-American neighborhoods in the cities of the United States. However, isolating African-American loyalists from major cities can be very dangerous. This gap creates artificial barriers that prevent significant opportunities for trade and exchange of views, and does not provide a significant benefit to traders in the urban environment. In addition, isolated cities prevent all cities from developing cultural contacts with profitable financial, employment, business and wildlife groups.
In addition, intersectionality blacks and whites have widespread divisions that are not poor-controversial visions about the continuing importance of caste. The film explored by the context of this period by the frail young Chiron, whose childhood was changed due to ignorance behavior of his mother.
Body 2
In March 1984, when five properly reviewed closed closures were announced, the northeast London miners had no choice but to strike to get their work done and gain economic benefits. Billy’s controversial father, Jackie Elliott, one of whom experienced the hoax. As a single father, Eliot’s family depended on Jackie to receive funds to provide food, education, and clothing to her family (Winterton and Winterton 1989). It is clear to say that the strike means that there are no jobs which means no economic gains and the results clash for important resources.
Coal was once the British economy’s most important part. In the mid-80s, but now only 17% of the coal mines in the UK are working, the government has closed several. A number of excavations went on strike, but it was the quickest protest in 1984 (Winterton and Winterton 1989). The reason behind the strike was the closing of a large number of mines, leaving hundreds of people unemployed. Minors are also struggling to get fair pay and benefits, but their jobs should be restored most importantly (Saville 1986).
A major scene supporting the Miners’ strike is in the middle of the film when Billy learns that his father destroyed an old family piano that belonged to his former mother. This action illustrates the seriousness of the financial difficulties experienced by the family as Jackie had no choice but to turn to small resources such as wood for remodeling real estate. It provides an example of the effects of a Minor strike in 1984 (Rees 1985).
But the problem was rising again. Billy is the symbol of more than one child to fulfill his dream. Billy has no future in the city or the coal industry. Throughout the film, Billy watches his family’s struggles through financial hardship, observes acts of violence against people in their community, and experiences signs of sexual attitudes (Macdonald and Popple 2012). The first is a young boy’s deep vulnerability, depicted by Bell with compelling elegance, struggling to reconcile his ballet passion with his Durham mining community’s masculinity ideals in general, and his mining father and brother in particular. The second theme is common, but depicted with devastating effect by using the strike of miners as the background to the film: the disintegration of conventional masculinity ideals during the decline of mining and heavy industry in the mid-eighties (Thompson and Bordwell 2003).
It created a masculine identity that served the industrial revolution well; we expelled men and children to work in factories and mines, destroying the family units of the agrarian and pre-industrial economy of the cottage industry. Now that heavy industry is over, their masculinity is as outdated as their work. Marxism is a cultural, political, and economic ideology named after Karl Marx, which explores the effects of capitalism on labor, production, and economic development, and argues in favor of a working-class revolution to overthrow capitalism (Linklater 1990).
Billy Elliot deals humorously with a past that lies heavily on the British heart: the downturn of heavy manufacturing has devastated not only economies, but souls. It was the efforts of such regions that formed the basis of our industrial development, and have turned back on uncomfortably. We like Billy Elliot and The Full Monty, these men’s parables and industrial collapse, as they discuss the shame of middle England, trying to offer good solutions that are morally deceitful for all their humor (Sinfield 2006).
Body 3
Billy was white boy, and Chiron was black body boy, reaction of the society could be different on the bases of race but Moonlight was total casted black people, even there was not a single character of white body. Comparatively, Billy have favor of his dance tutor who guided him to reach London school, even his father was facing employment crises, he could not support his son but Billy found a source on the other hand racial and environment effect of Ghettos forced Chiron to be a bad element of the society, only Juan can guide him but after that character no one was there to make his life batter, even his sexual desire could not reach till considering a dream.
The fictional city where the movie is set is covered with political posters that encourage miners to strike. Such miners were realized by Billy’s brother and father. By organizing films during this time period, we can gain a sense of personal insight into how strikes affect families across the UK. In England, geography also provides a metaphor for the class. The North is the seat belt of the British Industrial Revolution, run by coal mines that represent the strength of tomorrow. In 1984, the British coal industry experienced heavy contraction of 700,000 employees in British region from 1957 to 300,000 in 1970, when alternative fuels were used (Stephenson and Spence 2013).
Once culturally isolated, black barbarian adolescents find that linguists have invented their speech patterns to alter geographic distances, even as the emerging language becomes more and more poorer than the words of the white people. A few miles away. Unaccompanied white couples used to travel to China to adopt children, while orphans born in the ghetto did not have parents (Phillips 2014). This is not to say that American society is a gross racist, but just to show that there is a racial “difference” of black people deeply rooted in the social consciousness of our nation. There is no record of contemporary racial relations which diminishes this fact. But this is exactly what the Crusaders were color blind.
Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability are the main focus of this film. In The Beach Scene with Juan, Juan emphasizes the importance of his father’s identity, black identity, in the film. Juan said, “There are black people everywhere. Remember, right? You can’t go where there’s no black people. We are the first on this planet. “As Juan speaks about the importance of the black experience, he also thinks about his childhood when a stranger tells him” (Randolph 2017). “This is the image audiences can see when the director, Barry Jenkins, offers several moon shots in the moonlight. Juan seems to associate this image with weakness, noting that he once told her that he eventually gave up the nickname “Blue” to strengthen his identity (Iroegbulem 2019). The scenes depicting Chiron in the Moon, along with Kevin on the sea, are almost always scenes where he is weak. The dichotomy of black and blue refers to the harsh and the gentle throughout the film, often with the black bodies in between (McWhirter 2018).
Conclusion
Both movies presented a basic issue, masculinity, and vulnerability and comparatively racism effect in case of Chiron, his environment did not teach him anything other than fighting, drugs, hate and disputes, only Juan and his girlfriend in whole movie, guided him the way of life, his identity and sense of living as black (Simanullang 2018). All other characters were involved in themselves instead of feeling their responsibility of care and being good symbol for society. In case of Billy Elliot lack of economic wellbeing in the region forced this young boy to achieve his dream, some family stances like interest in boxing had tried to move his internal desires. But at the end, availability of economic resources and opportunities of living instead of working in mines only or selling drugs in Ghettos, can change the scenario from poor environment to a healthy system of living life (Copeland 2018). Sexual identity was faced by both kids and took its time to identify internal desire. Conclusively a healthy environment of strong economic and employed face of the society can overcome major problems of the society.
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