blog#16

Samantha McCarthy
Professor Luke Vasilelou
Eng 103
24 May 2011
Based on what is happening in the movie even in the 1980s NYC is always been known to be busy and always have lots of traffic. The movie tends to portray the movie in a realistic way. Mid 80s into the 90s women were becoming more independent .They had high class jobs and could provide for themselves. There was some hustling and bustling going on in the city also. For example, the taxi cab driver (john tavotte) made reference to the NYC traffic. The business man neglected to give molly the cab when she was in labor because he was in a rush. Men in the corporate world like to have power and control over things
At the time the taxi driver assume she had a husband or boyfriend because she was pregnant. But off the back by hear saying she didn’t have either and she was arterials inseminated people thought it was either because she was ugly or a lesbian. In life now maybe your partner can not produce and you have to get frozen sperm in order to produce a baby and that’s understandable.
Having a Family was important that the time. It was custom to have a two parent household. Shown in the movie molly had a strong desire to find a father for her child, even though she was independent enough to take care of her child on her own. The movie can come unrealistic because it happened so fast so we don’t get to see a day to day progress .for instances in the movie it seem like just two days ago little mikey was born and she met the taxi driver while rushing him to take her to the hospital. The next sense mikey is big and that taxi driver is in the house putting molly to bed and taking mikey our for a ride in his cab.
The movie also depicts the class structure and the means of survival within the city. James the cab driver has two different jobs and is very creative in finding ways of meeting his financial needs. Making $1100 a month in comparison to what molly is an accounting makes a significantly difference. We also see where as a single mother, molly is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere as hiring a babysitter in the charter of James. This was a clear indicator of the class and economical structure of the society at the time.
The Mets is represented like a symbol because molly mom is wearing the sweat shirt and most times when you see the Mets people think NYC, So it a identifications of NYC. Accounting was use by a paper based method which was causing NYC to lose $600 million a year in uncollected taxes. As evidence in the movie molly is manual typing in the numbers and doing the calculations from out her head. (Stated from the New York Magazine may 14, 1984) from 1989 to 1922 the city suffered loss in mandatory growth.
In Manhattan the medium price for homes “dropped by more than a quarter, construction declined by a third, and the city lost one-tenth of its jobs”. (Stated from the New York magazine.)The market was further destabilized by bond bedding and jacked up interest rate. Employees were made redundant; there were various merges acquisitions, and buyouts of companies. “Wall street alone saw 16,000 layoff in the two years before the recession even began”.
In 1989 New York city was financial different regarding the salary for certain jobs, the rent to live in certain locations and the cost of certain items. For instance a paralegal would make around 28,000 a year, a register nurse would make 20,000 a year and a computer programmer would make a average of 27, 00 per year. Housing range for a new house cost around $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,000.00. a gallon of gas was $1.19 and a year later was 97 cents. During those times pricey was really reasonable. A new car was just $7,210.00 but soon raised by 1989 to $15,400.00. A pair of Nike air force shoes was $54.99. Milk was 85 cents for ½ gallon. Bunk beds with mattress were $148.