Disability In The Movie The Ringer

The Ringer starts off with a background explanation about the characters and give a sense of justification to the actions they are going commit throughout the movie. Steve Barker works in a company that doesn't challenge him enough to test his knowledge which led him to request for a more demanding tasks. When he was talking to his boss, the boss told him to fire Stavi, the janitor but Steve decide to keep him around out and told him to lawn his apartment lawn of pity. Although things seemed like they were going smoothly, Stavi cuts his fingers off on job which left Steve in a financial fiscal. This led Steve to agree with the plan Gary Barker, Steve’s uncle came up with so they could win the special Olympic and collect the rewards. The plan …show more content…
When characters such as Billy and Rudy found out about the scheme Steve was running, they were not mad but rather happy because they now have something to focus on and further themselves from the strict boundaries that is set for them. The common ground they discovered was much greater than Steve’s illustration of them. When I saw this, it made me wonder if the writers are saying actions such as Steven’s are allowed and acceptable to the point where it is ignored without any consequences. I believe the writers should have a scene that illustrated the frustration the characters with disability felt when they discovered that Steve was mocking them. In the movie, The Ringer, individuals with disabilities were stereotyped. The protagonist, Steve Barker, held a conventional image about what it means to be disable thus leading him to act and talk like a person with a disability. The fact that Steve thought it was for him to fit in because he knew how blend by easily acting like them is absurd. The movie implies that if you act and talked “crazy enough” then it will eventually be considered as unordinary and not normal which is usually linked when describing a person with a disability. Although the movie carries a negative aspects, the stereotype that portrayed in the movie had a positive impact on the movie as well as the characters with disabilities. It led the actors …show more content…
Similar to the discussion we had in class, it is important to put the individual before their disability. It demonstrates the acknowledgement they, as humans, deserve. In the movie, the lack of First-Person Language is greatly acknowledged. When Gary Barker, Steve's uncle, was describing the people Steve will compete with a negative attitude, his choice of words are very demeaning and uncalled for. It correlates with the stereotypes people with disabilities face every day, those stereotypes eventually labeling them as not normal or not ordinary enough to be normal. The fact that Steve and his uncle thought it was easy to act disable also plays a huge role in how society simplifies the disability culture as to being nonessential and allows people to act with nonchalant toward the

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