Save the Last Dance

Save the Last Dance (2001)
Plot: Sara Johnson (Julia Styles) dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. After the accidental death of her mother, Sara is forced to move from the Quiet suburbs to her fathers ghetto apartment in Chicagos south side. She gets transfered into a new school where she is one of the few white students there. She becomes friends with Chenille, and later falls in love with her brother Derek, who trains her for an audition with Julliard school of dance.

Negative comments on interracial love. friends of Derek don't approve on him dating a white girl. Telling him that he's "Snowflaking". Malakai tells Sara that she's milk which don't mix. Nikki says "I aint walking on eggshells just because you brought the brady bunch to the negro club."


Clip 1: As Julia and Derek are headed on a date on a subway. A middle age white woman shoots dirty looks at the two together. Sara and Derek respond by having fun and playing into it. This shows the racism of whites and how people can be close minded when looking at interracial relationships

Clip 2: Sara and Chenille discuss the fight she had with Nikki over Derek. But Chenille is surprisingly on Nikkis side saying "Here you come white so you gotta be right, and you take one of the few decent men we have left after jail, drugs, and drivebys that's what Nikki meant about you in our world."This statement displays the segregation. Just because Sara is a white female, Chenille and others believe they shouldn't be in love.