MovieChallenge

The movie attempts to make the watchers believe that it was an alright place to live. Throughout the movie were people shown playing softball, football and baseball in their free time. The people during the movie did not appear to be unhappy but on the contrary, they always seemed to be having somewhat of an enjoyable time. In the beginning of the movie it starts explaining why the Japanese citizens were relocated and about the capacities of the relocation centers. The movie continues and tells about how the majority of the relocation centers were in deserts however there were a few that were in wooded areas. Any of the open land and fields that the relocation centers were located around were turned into agricultural areas. The food produced by the people was very plentiful because of the fact that the majority of them were farmers. The food was not put out on the market but kept and fed for the people in the camps to eat. According to the movie there was school systems along with a fully legitimate curriculum that met the boards standards. There was somewhat of a political system. The movie talks about the different pay that people were receiving, a beginner received 12 an intermediate earned 14 and an expert got 19 per month. These wages may seem like horrible wages and the thought that no one could ever even survive on this amount of money, but back then the ability to live off very small amounts of money was a lot better. For one there were not as many things available in the line of luxury goods as well most things did not cost nearly as much as things do now because of inflation and the massive amount of jobs available currently.
1. Who decided where to place the camps?
2. How were all round up?
My reaction to this video was somewhat surprised. I expected everyone to be completely miserable but almost everyone was smiling and appeared to be happy. Maybe it was just the people making the best out of a bad situation. Overall with what Takaki had said that it was not how it appeared. What was shown to us was not how the camps actually were.