"Lone Star" Movie

While I watched the movie “Lone Star,” I noticed that this was not your typical romance/murder mystery movie; there was in fact a much stronger meaning behind this film. What I happened to take from this movie was a combination of every story we have read throughout the semester, every conversation we’ve had and even every digital story I’ve seen; all of the material we have covered can be related to this movie. What I found most fascinating about this movie was a subject I may have pondered about a couple of times but have never actually seen it being discussed or addressed. Here in this movie we have whites, blacks, Chicanos and Indians; such a diverse group of people living in one town, and yet still so much alike. 

How so? For example, this semester through the film “The Cats of Mirikitani,” for the first time I learned that at one point Japanese-Americans were considered lower than African-Americans, but what I also learned was that when you truly think about it, every culture has at one point had their fair share of racial exclusions. Every culture or race breaks down into pieces what they have went through in America and their experiences, when in reality every culture at one point or another has experienced their fair share of racial discrimination in America. Instead of understanding and relating to the past together we seem to think that our culture is the only one that have been faced with difficulties. In this film the people of Rio County, whites, blacks, Chicanos and Indians all remember the past in dissimilar ways. But eventually I understood, these people have lived together in this town, and although they each remember things differently what they did have in common was that they each had to pay a price.