New Jack is a 1991 action gangster movie that was cast in America. This movie is a story with Nino as a leader of a gang by the mane cash money brother and dominates the city in the crack business. This consists of his best friend Gee Money, Duh Man, Keisha, Selina and Kareem. This movie portrays a rising drug lord by the name of Nino Brown who was responsible for the crack epidemic in the New York City. On the other hand, there is a detective who vows to stop the drug activities of Nino and works undercover in Nino’s gang. This paper tries to analyze the movie on issues of race, gender and violence, the social class and sexual orientation. Additionally, I will analyze how gender and drug business has been portrayed, manhood act of violence and sexual objectivity as portrayed in this film.
Racial discrimination in fighting the drug epidemic has been illustrated well in this movie. For instance, in the movie being black makes you a suspect in drug dealing by the police department. Additionally, two black men are seen harassing a white man on top of a building and finally throwing him into the river but the police did not show up to try and save him. Furthermore, in the film, many of the people affected by the black epidemic were blacks from poor social economic backgrounds. Moreover, when the drug gang is busted and Nino is angry in a meeting he attacks one of his gang member who was not black and tells he did not like him anyway showing racism on his part. When taking over the catering building Nino strips naked a black man and walks him on the streets and nobody including the police shows up to try and save him probably because he is the black point to racism on the part of law enforcers.
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This film additionally uses gender disparity to illustrate the effects of drugs in the poor neighborhoods. From the film, one can recognize that this is a male-dominated business with women playing the very little role in it save for one who is on the forefront. Additionally, many of the people affected by the crack epidemic were men with a few cases of females who were addicted to crack. Additionally, this film points to the fact that drug use and addiction has lead to gender-based violence. An example is when Pokkie attacks a woman when she denied him a bite of her meal and when he is restrained bt T Ace he blames the attack on the use of the drug and states that it makes him violent. Furthermore, when taking over the cater the gang group killed many women in the process, therefore, depicting violence against the female gender.
Manhood acts of violence and dominance have additionally been well illustrated in the film. In the film, the police and the leaders of the gang are all men showing the dominance of the male gender. Additionally, men in the movie are very violent and they use violence as a show of dominance. An example is when in the meeting Nino attacks Kareem to show the others that he is in control and that nobody should try to stand up to him. On the other hand, when taking over the Cater the gang group uses violence to make the owner gives up his building. On the contrary, there is this point during the takeover of the Cater building when a woman kills a man without blinking pointing to the fact that women are equally violent even though it is on a small scale compared to men in the movie.
In the film, the prevalence of violence has been seen as a cause of detachment among friends and family. Although Nino tries to depict that they are a family and a brother's keeper his violent manner of solving issues in the gang group has made members be afraid of him and detach from him completely. This leads to them not having the capacity to notice that T Ace was an undercover police officer in their gang as they had disintegrated and forgot the basic background checks that they needed to do.
Sexual objectification is the situation where one treats a person as a mere object of sexual desire. This is the same as treating a person as a commodity with less regard to their personality and dignity. Sexual objectivity has been seen in this movie. This was widely seen when Nino sleeps with a prostitute who used to date Gee. Nino does it for pleasure and not out of love. This is depicted when the woman suggests that they have a child which Nino reject showing that he was only interested in her as an object for sex and nothing more. Furthermore, in a scene when Nino is called and informed that there were issues in the drug business, the woman was trying to comfort him but hi violently shout at her to stop and leaves showing that he did not care about the sexual needs of the woman but his. Additionally, Karem is quoted in the movie when he was on the phone shouting angrily saying “I wish I treated you as a hooker” meaning he wished he had used the woman on the other end of the phone as a sexual object.
