The movie, "Pariah" depicts the story of a girl named Alike who struggles to find acceptance from her peers, her family, and her self. Throughout the movie, she endures hardship after hardship, ultimately searching for peace of mind. It was the battle of being who she was versus what her parents wanted her to be. In one scene of the movie, Alike and her family are preparing to go to church, and her mother has a problem with the outfit Alike chose to wear. Her mother forces her to change and insists that she wear a skirt. The main dilemma throughout the film is that society consistently coerced Alike to be something that she wasn't. The fact of the matter was that Alike was a lesbian, but society deemed that that wasn't okay. Society said that she had to conform to the the ideal or traditional meaning of being a female. It got to the point where Alike would change her clothes throughout the day so that she could satisfy who she was and her parents.
I think everyone can relate to Alike. If it isn't sexuality, then it's the idea of being normal. If it isn't normality then it's the fight between pursuing your dreams versus a dream of your parents or relatives. Everyone has a moment in life when they had to go against what was expected in order to truly be themselves. This movie made me think of borders. "Pariah" shows the huge border that has been set up for sexuality. While it is becoming more accepted for people to be homo-sexual, there are still many who look at it with disdain. In all, "Pariah" was great, and allowed people to see things from a different point of view.
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