According to Bergesen (Attached as PDF.) you can analyze movies from a sociological perspective because they are reflections of a broader culture. Movies convey the values, beliefs, norms, institutions, systems, conflicts, priorities, and social realities of the societies that create them.
The creators of the film are inserting their cultural perspectives and the audience is interpreting the movie from their own cultural perspectives. When a movie is highly successful with a particular audience, it means that its cultural depiction resonates with the identities of the viewers in some way.
• Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston) depicts capitalism as an unholy system. Explain how and why using specific examples from the movie. Draw on Bergesen (Attached as PDF) and Sorinel (Attached as PDF) to explain why capitalism can be interpreted this way.
• How does this clash with Calvinist interpretations of capitalism?
• Finally, compare this movie’s interpretation of capitalism to those of Lucky (John Carroll Lynch) and Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mira Nair)