Radiant City

In the movie “Radiant City”, I seen a lot of important critiques of suburbs. Two of the most important critiques that was presented was the relationship of isolation that is presented between people in the ‘community’ and the second most important critique that was presented was the separation of the community from other convenient places like grocery stores, shopping, work, parks, and convenience stores. In the movie Mark Kingwell a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto stated, “Community is what defines us who we are and without community we are less than ourselves”, I agree with his statement because I believe people not only make up their community but what the community has in it makes up the people also.
Two most important reasons why people move to the suburbs is for cheaper new homes and for the sense of independence ‘single moms’. In the movie the mom was very excited about her big spacious home with all the rooms upstairs and the laundry room downstairs. I believe that she felt happy that it was a brand new home that her family was the first to live in, she was also able to design the home the way she wanted it. The price of her home was around the same price as a
When the movie first started off I was also a little confused because it started with a man named Ken Greenberg telling the history of the suburb area. As the movie went on I got filled in pretty quickly. The son and daughter seemed as if they did not like to live in the suburb area but they just adjusted to their living arrangements because of their mom wanting to live there. I feel that I would not like living in the suburb areas because everything is just so spacious apart from everything else. I did not like the fact that human interactions were compromised. I feel that the suburbs are for some people but not for all