The Movie Enough: Film Analysis Of The Film Enough

“Enough”

The film that is being used for the movie analysis is “Enough”, this movie was chosen due to the fact that it is based on domestic violence towards women. The movie begins with in Los Angeles diner were a waitress named slim works with her best friend Ginny (Kazan, 2002). While working her shift slim has a customer that starts harassing her over the name she has, but the companion of the annoying customer defends slim, which in turn starts a romance, later to become a marriage between the two (Kazan, 2002). The couple is later blessed with a daughter they name Gracie, and at the beginning the marriage seems to be a fairy tale out of a story book (Kazan, 2002). The fairy tale becomes a nightmare as time moves forwards for the couple,

This is based on the abusive nature of the crimes that induce fear, humiliation and often violence as well as dangerous behaviors that women have been subjected to become victimized (Belknap, 2015). When looking into the diversity, historically, feminist were focused too strongly on the life experiences of white, middle-class women, and girls than those of all races and financial backings (Belknap, 2015). When looking further into the film “Enough” the character who played Slim is Latino, making this film reinvent in this study considering she is female, middle-class and Latino, and experiencing domestic violence in her household (Belknap, 2015). Slim experienced severe beatings by the hands of her husband, but when she tried to get help from law enforcement, and her in-laws, there was no help to protect her from the abuse she endured (Belknap, 2015). There was reference in the text book that expressed that when victims experience abuse from there partners, they are embedded with fear due to the threats that is expressed towards them or there family, in turn causing them to be fearful to get help or escape the intense abuse (Belknap,