CAPS #2

     Well I'm supposed to write about three cultural patterns that I see while watching a movie. Ok well where do I start, because in "A Time to Kill" there are so many. We have racism, we have ethnicity (or what those characters believe to be so) and then we have the old "a woman is less than a man" cliche.
      The whole movie is about racism, but there are specific parts that demonstrate it a little more than others. Parts like when lawyer "Jake Brigance's" window had a rock thrown through it with a note calling him a "niggar lover" or most importantly the reason for the whole movie, the rape of "Carl Lee Hailey's" adolescent daughter, simply because she was a little black girl. I might be a little off with this next part but this is how I see it. I believe that there is a little bit of what I see as ethnicity in what the movie shows through a KKK clan. These men are shown throughout the movie in there different meetings and plots against "Mr. Brigance and his team. I see them as an ethnic group because they believe themselves to be its own culture of people. Last but certainly not least we have "men versus women". Mr. Brigance first demonstrates this when he declines "Ms. Ellen Roark's" help stating that he can handle it but ask his friend "Mr. Harry Vonner" for his help.
     Ok so with all of this being said, how does it all tie into intercultural communication, well let's start with racism, which is the most obvious one. This dates back to the times of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Although its not as evident it's still there. People just don't know how to relate to each other without seeing a skin color and that causes problems. I believe that the Klu Klux Klan is a part of intercultural communication because I believe that this group believes itself to be its own culture. To them there is nothing to talk about as far as they are concerned. What they say and how they do things is the absolute right thing to say or do. Now we get to the men versus women. Men have always seen women inferior to them and "A Time to Kill" only mimics those thoughts. Men have always felt like women are here to compliment them so what would be the need to talk about anything. Well these are my thoughts and words about intercultural communication and how it is shown in "A Time to Kill".