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CHAPTER IV CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusions
Unconditional is a film about the story of Samantha Crawford and Joe
Bradford who were the most unlikely childhood friends, growing up in a farm town where Black and White did not mix. In America back then, Black people
was extremely unwelcomed. Samantha Crawford was the only kid who welcomed a Black kid, Joe Bradford, as a friend. Over the time, they lost touch. Sam grew
up as a success children’s author, while somehow Joe ended in a slum area helping fatherless children. Sam and Joe met again after Sam helped Keisha, Joe’s
upbringing child, from a car accident, This film is based on a true story of Joe Bradford.
One of the messages in this film is about the freedom and equality between race by showing Sam and Joe whom represent Black people and White people has
a harmonious relationship. Unlike a common relationship between Black people and White people in America which Black people was presented as a lower class
community, the harmonious relationship between Samantha Crawford and Joe Bradford was a relationship that was still rare to find. Joe Bradford and Samantha
Crawford helped each other. Since their first met, Sam and Joe already made a good friendship, despite on how Joe was being bullied by almost everyone in his
school. Joe and Sam coincidentally met again several years after, and thus they continued their friendship. They helped each other’s problem and comforted each
other too.
This can be accepted only from the explicit view. If this film being analyzed deeper, this film shows about how White people tried to preserved their
supremacy by showing the discrimination of Black people that portrays when Joe was a school kid who had no friends and being called an afro by his friend. This
discrimination also showed about how Detective Miller’s vision about Black people, saying that they were going to be a criminals like what a Black people
should have be. There is also some discrimination happened when Joe was in jail. Like how the jail has divided the prison cell for Black and for White. This film
also portrays the superiority of White people by showing how Sam helped Keisha, proving that she has power over a helpless little Black kid. The superiority also
showed when Sam brought Joe and his kids to her farm and shows the Black characters about how beautiful and wide her house is compare to their house. This
proves has clearly shows about what this film trying to show and what really happened in the film are quite different.
The result of this analysis is to prove that Unconditional film is a medium that has been used to built hegemony and to preserved White people supremacy.
This can be seen from the superiority of White people through Black people that has been the focus of this analysis.
B. Suggestions
There are many other problems that has not been analyzed about Unconditional
film before. One of them is about the character of Sam. In the true story of Joe Bradford, Sam is only a childhood friend of Joe. Based on the
interview of the real Joe Bradford, they lost contact and never met again even
after the release of this film. Meanwhile, in Unconditional film, Sam is the main character. She becomes the center story of this film while at the end of the film, a
narrator said that this film is based on the true story of Joe Bradford. Therefore, the writer suggests to analyze about Sam’s character and what message does this
film try to deliver by showing a fictional character of Sam as the center of the story. The writer also hopes that this research could give significant contribution
in literature and to all English Literature students in any university.
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