Filmanalyse af '8 Mile'

Jimmy is white and he goes in loose clothes like a gangster do. But he lives for rapping. Jimmy

tries to attend his work in the daytimes on a steel factory. His friends help and support him

with what he is doing. Every Friday evening go they to the club “The Shelter, Where rappers

competes’ to be the best. The main opponent is a group of black young people, who call

themselves The Free World. He works at a factory where he not came to the time. He helps

and protects he little sister, he has been in a figy with his stepfather and he say to his mother

that he needs to do his own things to came further with his life. They call him Rabbit because his mother gave him the nickname when he was little because he resembles a rabbit with big teeth and big ears and he fled from his battle. But the name is B-rabbit, but it stands for “Bunny rabbit” Jimmy lives in a caravan with his mother, little sister and stepfather but he only exploits her. He’s mother drink and hers boyfriend is not much older than Jimmy. There is a conflict between Jimmy and his stepfather so something tells me that they not are so good friends. They are called”White trash” in the trailer park and it’s the deepest you can sink, when you belong to the white race, when you not have a work in the start and permanent building. Jimmy’s mother doesn’t have a work. She is also an alcoholic. She goes to bingo and a day she is there, she is lucky and wins 3.200 dollars so they can afford to stay in their trailer. She thinks only at herself. The relationship between jimmy and his mother is Not good, they don’t have a very strong relationship. Jimmy takes care of his little sister, but the mothers don’t. She is indifferent with hers son gets bank.