Diversity & Inclusion Movie Review. Social Sciences Essay

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The film, ‘Last Train Home’ by Fan et al. (2009) plays a significant role in portraying the kind of frustration, hustle, and bustle that the poor undergo while trying to make a living and establish a better future for their generations to come. The film is based on a single family, Zhang's family to reflect on the kind of life around 130 million Chinese undergo while searching for fortunes in urban cities of China. China is well known worldwide as the heartbeat of industrialization and modernization with its amazing cities like Beijing and Guangzhou, while in real sense, there exists an underlying agony for the bearers of China’s greatness. The movie provides a great insight into this agony that most people in China undergo in order to sustain the county as the world industrial giant, tainting China as a socially exclusive administration.
The families spent a whole year in the cities trying to make a living, with phone calls and letters as the only means to catch up with the rest of the family members back home. The living rooms are relatively small and the wages are very low. On top of that, these people annually find themselves in misery trying to catch a train to ferry them back home for the only chance they have in a year to finally be together as a whole family. The trips to rural homes are quite tiresome, over two thousand kilometers on a train and some additional on bus and foot. The terms of work and probably the legislation only allows workers to travel to their rural home only once a year, for their traditional celebration of the New Year’s Eve. The scenes at the train station are chaotic, millions of people scramble to get a train ticket.
The people back at the rural homes are not spared of this frustration, whereby the kids don't get to see their parents for a long period. Zhang, having spent sixteen years in the city had a rough time in controlling their rebellious daughter. The kid felt that their parents had neglected them while in actual sense they were working hard for their sake. The rebellious daughter got tired of school and ignored the persistent advice of her parents to work hard in school, she dropped out of school and decided to join them hustling in the city.  The parents were reluctant to caution her from joining them, hoping the miserable life in the city would teach her a lesson an eventually go back to school. This, however, didn't happen, with the daughter ending up in a physical confrontation with the father after returning home for their new yea...