Step Up 2 The Street Film Analysis

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Step Up 2: The Street (2008) is a film directed by Jon M. Chu. It started when Andie West (played by Briana Evigan) trying to be active in dancing. She is an orphan who lives with her mother’s friend named Sarah. They live together in Baltimore town. She wants to channel her dancing talent by joining in street dance ‘4-1-0’. However, Andie joins with a wrong dancer group because this group likes to disturb the society around them such doing dancing suddenly in public and they will upload their video. Sarah knows about Andie joining in 4-1-0 dancer street group, therefore she wants Andie to leave from that group. Sarah gives Andie an option to leave from 4-1-0 group or leave from Sarah’s house. Because Andie is a stubborn girl, so that she choose to leave from Sarah’s house than losing her friends and her group.
The new stage started when her friend Tyler Gage introduce and tell her a dancing school in Maryland
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They work hard for attending and winning in The Street competition. The day comes, when MSA Crew comes in The Street competition, they underestimated by 4-1-0. However, in this competition the winner is still 4-1-0, the MSA Crew feeling disappointed because they have to facing their losing. Nevertheless, they still practice harder for the next competition, and the result is they become the winner.
We can see that in the movie raise class struggle and classism issue. The classism comes between two sides that is the street dance and MSA dance, which the street dance considered as the unfit dance whereas MSA is the best dance than the street dance. The oppression shows when the owner of MSA does not agree while Chase joins with them. In this case, the MSA Crew wants to show that the street dance is can be considered as a classy dance. This paper will analyze how the classism and class struggle portrayed in this movie by using Marxism theory and using narrative and non-narrative