Documentary Analysis: The House I Live In

The House I Live In is a must see documentary. This motion picture looks at the American war on drugs and its success, or rather, its lack thereof. Starting with the story of Nanny Jenner it soon spiderwebs off into tales of those affected by the war directly, and how it inadvertently affects the rest of society in the process. The film explores both the wars roots in greed as well as in hatred. With moving firsthand accounts, intriguing outlooks from drug dealers themselves as well as how they became what they are today, and showing the faces of families that are affected, this documentation of events is packed with information that all generations of Americans need to be aware of. Adding to the reasons to watch this film is that it illustrates

Neigh sayers may claim that a person has ample opportunity to overcome the conditions in which they have been raised, and would swiftly be rectified in their beliefs. From the moment people of color and/or lesser status were sectioned off into modern-day ghettos, that of which of overrun by poverty, poorer education systems, and drastically low employment opportunities, we have been conditioning them to both use and sell drugs. A physician that was interview in the documentary said that people only turn to drugs so as to soothe pain, so, with the information of having bad home lives there is no doubt people would turn to drugs, and, as any successful capitalist in America, drug dealers seize the rare chance of economic safety in feeding people’s addictions, which they know will hold steady throughout time, unlike other “real”

being corrupted and molded from birth into an adult the had not choice but to become, it becomes abundantly clear that the “war on drugs” is simply a variable in the problem, not the problem itself. Critics may shout the exact opposite, facts are facts, though. The United states has been struggling for a very long time, with the debt that it owes to other countries, with civil unrest, racial disparities, extreme poverty, drugs, and much more. The U.S. is sick, and those that are fighting only certain issues must understand that it is futile to fight the symptoms of a disease when those efforts could instead be focused on developing a cure to fix the problem in its