"Losing Isaiah"

The movie that I will discuss is called Losing Isaiah, directed by Stephen Gyllenhall. This film focuses on the controversial battle between a African American, played by

Halle Berry

and her fight to win back her son Isaiah from his adoptive white mother, played by

Jessica Lange

. From the six approaches to writing about film, I will focus on the ideological approach of this movie. In an article titled

Beyond `Losing Isaiah': Truth in shades of gray

, written by Lena Williams she discusses the issue of trans racial adoptions. In her article she states,

Experts in child psychology and racial identity differ widely on whether black children are harmed by being adopted by white families.

. This issue fall under the ideological approach because this film focuses on the beliefs and values of black and white in the sense of race and class. The fact that Halle Berry plays a young African American, who was an ex drug addict who is now fighting for the custody of her son who was taken in by a white mother and her family caused a huge racial custody battle of whether it was more appropriate to send the child to his natural black mother or stay with the white mother.