Character Analysis of a Community: 'Lone Star' and the Concept of Borders Anonymous College

The movie Lone Star addresses multiple issues that people from troubled border towns have, including racial tensions, dirty cops, and illegal gambling. "Ours is a story about borders. Towns on either side of a given border generally have more in common with each other than they do with any towns further into their own state" says the director, John Sayles. Borders are a major apart of this film both physically and emotionally, and almost every character has one or more to deal with throughout. It includes many different types of people and naturally there is going to be conflict between specific groups. There are Mexicans, African Americans, white, and Native American people featured and there are borders between characters on all sides. There are more of these type of emotional and personal borders rather than man made walls. The main character, Sam, has to be able to play both sides of each individual border because he is the sheriff and has to be fair as well as live up to his father's reputation. The borders created by the people involved always come back to Sam. The people that live there now think so highly of Buddy Deeds that they are dedicating the courthouse to him and if they were to find out that he wasn't the man...