CHARACTER REVIEW and nature of social setting in the film
Antwon fisher
Antwon fisher is film that describes a real story situation of a young African American man who faces many personal challenges since he was born until when he reunites with his lost family. Denzel Washington, who also plays as the psychiatric of Antwon fisher, directs the movie. Antwon fisher (Darek Luke) is a high tempered man. Other characters within the movie include Mr. and Mrs. Tale (Novella nelson and Elis William), who are foster parents of fisher. Joy Bryant is also featured in the film as Cheryl the navy sailor and the girl friend of Antwon fisher. Below is description of the main character Antwon fisher based on character identification, relationship as well as community identification (Fisher, & Ras, 2014).
Character identification
The key character Antwon fisher is a very high tempered young man. His father was killed before he was born. His mother was put into a correction facility while being pregnant of Antwon. Antwon was born at a prison. He was placed in an orphaned institution waiting for the time when his mother will be released from the prison and take care of him. After serving in jail for two year, Eva Mae fisher the mother of Antwon fisher was released from jail. Eva Mae refused to claim his son. This made Antwon fisher to be placed in a foster home controlled by a Mr. Tale and Mrs. Tale. The couple was believed to be strong religious followers. In the foster home, Antwon was severally mistreated. He faced both mental and physical injuries. Later at the age of fourteen Antwon, fish decided to escape from the foster home and went to live in the streets (Fisher, & Ras, 2014).
Antwon fisher was a child from the black race of the African American. Because he was mistreated and tortured as a child, Antwon developed weird features such as getting annoyed easily, fighting with anybody who annoys him, and having a violent temper. After living in the streets for some years, he decided to join the United States navy. As a navy officer Antwon, fisher lived a very troublesome life. He gets into several fights with his fellow soldiers until a time when he is sentenced to captain mast (Fisher, & Ras, 2014). The navy Captain punished him through fine, demotion, and restricting him from the hob for the next 45 days. On top of that, the commanding officer of Antwon also orders him visit a psychiatric for treatment.
Fisher meets doctor davenport who is a psychiatric but he refuses to talk. According to the navy sailors restrictions Antwon fisher is supposed to have only three session of therapy. Because in the first session ends without Antwon talking, Doctor Davenport says he can wait until when Antwon will be willing to talk to begin the session. After several weeks, Antwon fish visits the psychiatrist and he is willing to talk (Fisher, & Ras, 2014). Doctor Davenport questions Antwon the reason why he loves fighting and he claimed it was the only way in which some people could learned. These sessions help Antwon to start finding his family and he learns his strength and weakness. During his sessions with psychiatrist Antwon, fisher developed some feelings to the navy female sailor Cheryl. He takes her to a date and establishes a love relationship with her (Fisher, & Ras, 2014).
Significant relationships Antwon fisher has various relationship with different characters in the film. First Antwon has untrusting relationship from his childhood friends and family members. For instance, his foster mother who Mrs. Tale who even call him ‘nigger’ beats Antwon. He spends most of his childhood night feeling worthless and wanting to pass out. A woman living in the foster house sexually mistreats him. Antwon fell humiliated by these acts and the only friend he tells about is Jesse, who later lets him down making Antwon to lose his trust for his foster family members. Another significant relationship character that Antwon has is in the film is love and comforting friends. Antwon establishes a love relationship with the navy female sailor Cheryl. Cheryl provides a comforting and a cocoon of love, which gives him the strength to put his anger aside. She also assists him in his journey of finding his mother and forgiving her. Antwon fisher also experiences a close relationship with doctor Davenport who makes him to open up and share his early childhood secrets (Fisher, & Ras, 2014). He also obtains some coating advice from the psychiatrist; this tightens his relation with the doctor and invites him to his graduation ceremony. Antwon also develops a close friendly relationship with his mother and his ant Annette. From the film, Antwon has a fighting and abusive relationship with some of his fellow navy sailors. For example before the captain punished him, Antwon had been involved in a fight with his fellow navy sailor. He also has a fighting relationship with ‘uncle tom.’ This is seen when he is on leave at Mexico and Uncle Tom questions about his sexuality. He gets into a fight with him and he ends up being sentenced into jail. Antwon fish has unclose and hatred relationship with his foster parents. He hates his foster mother because she physically abused him. However, after his psychiatric session he goes to confront Mrs. Tale and an older Nadine who agree to give him details about his father’s name (Fisher, & Ras, 2014). Community analysis
From the film, Antwon fisher belongs from two different community groups. The first one is poor and abandoned community, while the second one is the law abiding middle class community at the navy. the fact that his mother was a teenager who was arrested and failed to claim her child back even after coming out of the prison, demonstrates that he come from a poor community. He is also an orphan who lives with his foster parents (Fisher, 2003). He is from the low class group in the community. Being a black kid living with white foster parents makes Antwon to experience a lot of discrimination. He lives in the street at the age of 14 years and his friend was shot in a robbery activity. This shows that the early childhood society of Antwon is very crocked.
Antwon also leaves in the law abiding middle class group at the navy. This community fails to understand that Antwon fist was suffering mentally because of his childhood abuse. The navy sailor’s community punishes Antwon several time because of his several fights with his fellow officers. Both the navy community and the poor childhood community present barrios to Antwon fish in his goal of accessing resource (Fisher, 2003). The poor early childhood community fails to offer love and comfort to Antwon hence forcing him to have psychological problems. This society discriminates him because of his skin color and abuses him sexually, physically, and mentally forcing him to have hot temper. The middle class navy community fails to learn about Antwon early childhood and the reasons why he loved to solve problems by use of violence. Instead, the society punishes him severally (Fisher, 2003).
The supportive resources in which these two communities gave to Antwon were providing the idea of visiting a psychiatrist to him. They also offer support by encouraging him to find his lost family. To serve a member of a community in the right way, the society should first understand the individual before judging them. The community should also provide love and comfort to their members especially during their early childhood period. This assists to avoid adolescence depression that creates violent and hot-tempered adults.
Reference Antwon Fisher. (n.d.). Studio: 20th Century Fox DVD Release Date: May 20, 2003. Ebert, R. (2006). Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 2007. Kansas, Mo: Andrews McMeel. Fisher, A. Q., & Ras, M. E. (2014). Finding fish. S.l.: HarperCollins e-Books. Fisher, A. Q. (2003). Who will cry for the little boy?: Poems. New York: William Morrow. Niemi, R. (2006). History in the media: Film and television. Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.: ABC- CLIO. Rubin, L. C. (2008). Popular culture in counseling, psychotherapy, and play-based interventions. New York, NY: Springer. Welsch, J. R., & Adams, J. Q. (2005). Multicultural films: A reference guide. Westport, Conn. [u.a.: Greenwood Press.
fisher