Stereotypes In The Film 'The Mask I Live In'

In the film, “the mask I live in,” published on January 25, 2015 by the representation project. The documentary looks at kids in high school in a rough area and adults who grew up with the pressure of becoming a man. This documentary looks at the stereotypes of what it takes to become a man and what you need to do in order to be classified as a man in todays standards. In this film the area they filmed was a hard area to live in which altered what the kids would say, the film also looked the bad side of the way men are represented today. This film has many good points but there is to much bias against becoming a man in the film. In the film it shows the students and adults who have had a hard time becoming a man in todays age. Today a man
is classified as what the media thinks is a man. This is unrealism yet many people believe that a man is what is portrayed in movies and tv shows and athletes. The fact of the madder is that in todays age becoming a man means you forget what ever you believe in to fit in with society wants you to be. Society believes that to be man in todays world you have to be the alpha male, you have to have a lot of money, you cant back down form a challenge, you are high up on the social system, you smoke and drink, and you get with a lot of women. Their are many things wrong with this documentary.
they only show the bad side of what happens in society and portray 99.9% of males are heartless and have no feeling. This film was filmed in areas where life is hard and in order to serve you have to act hard. That is the only area they filmed and took examples from. They say that people would not not look at athletes or celebrities to try to figure out what a man is when in all honesty not every celebrity or athlete is a bad person. The way they talked about the people in this film made it seem as if everyone who is in the spotlight is a bad person. The majority of athletes and celeberties donate a lot of their money to charities and care about their families, this film shows only the bad sides, everyone has their
flaws. A statistic that the film brings up is that males are drinking because of loneliness which could be the case but more than often in other peoples experiences they drink to have fun.
The film says many people drink because of peer pressure which is completely false for the world we live in today if you don't want to drink you don't have to, The world today has become to soft and people are afraid of what people will think if you do not do something. Yet I do agree with some of the statistics in the film I do agree with boys are 4x as likely to get expelled and boys are more likely to drop out of school (the mask). The thing I would want to know is where they got the statistics from and why the students left or got expelled. Many of the cases where the kid drops out is often because he need to work to support his family or personal reasons. The film also shows how males are being raised to treat women as if they are less then they are (the mask). The facts that the whole film brings up I feel are all related to the environment that the person is raised
in. In conclusion I feel that males are becoming weaker in the world because they are afraid of what society will say, males are becoming stereotypical in what it means to be a male. Many people are becoming the same and the difference are from from non. Males should be doing what their grandparents and older generations did, they have become weak in a lifestyle where everything comes to them and they can sit back and do nothing. Males need to go back to their roots and figure out that the life they live is simple and they have no right to complain because they feel that they are being hurt when in todays world where everyone is turning into babies and cry about everything no madder what you do or say you will hurt someone.