Film: "Lone Star"

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This paper explains that, in the film "Lone Star", the town of Frontera is inhabited by people from different races includes Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and Native Americans. The author points out that, because of the different races there are a lot of misunderstandings and uneasy relationships perhaps caused by the differences in the peoples' culture thus the diverse races and cultures became the border within Frontera's community. The paper suggests that history can create a burden depending on how the people create things out of what happened in the past. Several long quotations.

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"The pictures that John Sayle had drawn in the Lone Star, showing how the peoples' lives, culture, and racial differences, had demonstrated how the people were compelled to live in a troubled community. This was particularly shown in the character of Charley Wade, who was described as a racist and unfair sheriff. However, despite of the racial differences, Tomas Sandoval indicated how the story had also shown that the borders were not barriers between people, but it was the people and from the history, that they live with them that creates barriers between themselves."

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