Socio-EconomicWealth was not a huge topic in the film, but it was referenced a couple times. The T-Birds had a huge focus on the desire to own nice cars. They did not see the need to make money if they had a nice car and could win races with it. The desire to make nice cars showed their obsession with the appearance of wealth. The Thunder Road race was basically a competition to show who could afford the better car. This demonstrated the beginning of the youth in our country's desire to appear wealthy.
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PoliticalIn the movie, there is not really a reference to any political issues of the time. There are two things, though, that relate to political issues of the time. First of all, there are no black people in the movie at all. The movie was set towards the end of the civil rights movement in the United States, but it shows that they were still not accepted in society. There is not one black character shown on film. Another political issue kind of addressed is the idea of gays in society. They were fully not accepted and rarely openly gay. Before the dance, the principal said over the microphone that partners must be a girl and a boy, and everyone laughed in an "of course" sort of way showing that this was how things were.
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