Mean_Things_Happen

Mean Things Happen “Mean Things Happen” The Great Depression The 1930’s were hit by a serious economic disaster called the great depression. This problem ruined the rural economy. The film “Mean Things Happen” visited the times of the great depression from a social as well as economic standpoint. The movie illustrated how capitalists went to unscrupulous measures to continue with their control over the proletariat class. Social and economic stratification were also issues that were boldly outlined in the film. The films’ starting focus was on how the hardships of the bourgeoisie class during great depression showed in the faces of the proletariat class. Sharecroppers picked very large loads of cotton for the plantation owners to sell. However, with the crash of the rural economy, cotton prices were extremely low. Not much money was being made so the sharecroppers weren’t getting paid or were either paid insufficiently. President Roosevelt tried to help the cotton plantations by giving the landlords money based on the size of their farms. This money was supposed to cover farming costs and the tenants’ wages. Unfortunately, landlords would keep the funds and pay the sharecroppers what they wanted. Even though the tenants were aware that they weren’t being properly paid, they weren’t sharecroppers, great, union, members, landlords, depression, cotton, capitalists, paid, money, economic, class, being, act, wagner, wages, unscrupulous, unjust, unfortunately, times, things, social, said, rural, rights, proletariat, over, measures, mean, hardships, formed, form, forced, few, even, economy, 1935, , year, workers, winter, white, while, wasn’t, wanted, visited, view, very, usher, unite, unions