Reel Injuns

Introduction

The movie is documented to address the issue of ethnic difference and inequality. It is a Hollywood movie released in 2009, directed by Cree Film maker Neil diamond. The movie portrays the image of aboriginal Native American people. The idea of the movie is about the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the Hollywood film industry after 1930s. It looks onto the evolution of Native Americans in the cinema and how they were thrown out of the Indian cinema. It gives a pictorial depiction of how film production companies started taking white American as their cast and the down fall of real American people begun (Reel Injun, 2010s).

The movie address ethnic discrimination towards the race who contributed to the inception of the Hollywood industry and their hostile overtake by white Americans. The movie affirms the idea that it has been a deliberate effort to eradicate the presence of the Aboriginal inhabitants rather than a co incidence. It emphasizes the representation of pioneering ethnic class of the Hollywood cinematography and advocates their presence as their right over their own film industry. It affirms that the Hollywood industry doesn't represent the America and its people in their true sense; rather it is a biased activity of few dominant entities (ITS, 2010).

Discussion

The movie basically determines the relationship between people who were white Americans and the original red Indians with respect to the Hollywood film industry. The key issue that movie addresses is about the aboriginal American people. The movie advocates the idea that the founding stone of the US film industry, was laid by the aboriginal people. Yet, the current cinematography speaks a totally different story. It emphasizes the absence of founding figures from the film industry, it is based on the idea that there absence is not a mere co incidence. It further explains their absence as a deliberate effort of the white Americans, as well as, the current production companies which bear huge name and fame. The movie attempts to give nation, an understanding of the Native American Culture and the misperceptions about them. The movie comprises of clips from classic American movies, as well as, interviews of different Native Americans to show the actual Native Americans and eradicate the misperceptions created regarding them. The director himself travelled long way and talk to the real Aboriginal inhabitants about their perception of the big silver screen. He, thenceforth, shows ...