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City of Taguig
Taguig City University
General Santos Avenue, Central Bicutan, Taguig City
College of Criminal Justice
JOHN Q (2002)
A Case Analysis
Presented to the
Faculty of the College of Criminal Justice
TAGUIG CITY UNIVERSITY
In Partial
Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
Bachelor of Science in Criminology
Submitted By:
ANCHETA, Arthur F.
BSCRIM - E2018
Submitted By:
Prof. Nelson L. Magan
Professor
April 2021
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I. INTRODUCTION
Story fixates on a man whose nine-year-old child is in urgent need of a daily
existence saving transfer. At the point when he finds that his clinical protection will not
take care of the expenses of the medical procedure and elective government help is
inaccessible, John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) takes a medical clinic trauma
center prisoner in a final desperate effort to save his child. "John Q" is the sort of film
Mad magazine appeals to God for. It is so sincere, so weary thus uncontrollably doubtful
that it asks to be caricatured. I concur with its message- - that the most extravagant
country in history ought to have the option to bear the cost of public medical coverage -
yet the message is beat in with such fevered acting, it's just about as skewed and
manipulative as your normal political business.
The film stars Denzel Washington as John Q. Archibald, a Chicago assembly line
laborer whose obviously sound child falls during a Little League game. John Q. what's
more, his significant other Denise (Kimberly Elise) race the child to a trauma center,
where his signs are settled and afterward a cardiologist (James Woods) clarifies that
youthful Mike's heart is multiple times ordinary size.

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There are two alternatives: a heart relocates, or enhancing Mike's "personal
satisfaction" during the "months ... weeks ... days" left to him. Joining the specialist is
fittingly named medical clinic director Rebecca Payne (Anne Heche), who definitely
realizes the Archibald’s have no cash, and contends for the "personal satisfaction"
decision.
John Q. believes he's covered by protection, yet no: His organization changed to
another HMO that has a $20,000 roof, and since John has been scaled down to 20 hours
per week, he's fortunate to have that much inclusion. Payne requests a $75,000 up front
installment on the $250,000 activity, and clarifies the cruel real factors of life for "cash
patients." John Q. thinks about taking the child to County Hospital, yet is encouraged by
an amicable emergency clinic worker to remain in that general area at the forebodingly
named Crisis of Hope Memorial Hospital.
The hidden circumstance here is actually equivalent to in "Hottest time of the year
Afternoon" (1975), an endlessly more brilliant prisoner picture. What "John Q" needs is
the certainty to permit its characters to act shrewdly. Boss Monroe is amusingly dumb.
Think about this. A neighborhood TV station some way or another figures out how to tap
the police feed from the emergency clinic's surveillance cameras, and broadcasts live
video and sound of John Q. inside the medical clinic. Monroe sneaks an expert
sharpshooter into the clinic who has John Q. in his sights. John Q. is in the demonstration
of having an enthusiastic and shocking phone discussion with his son when Monroe, who
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is (a) ignorant of the TV feed, or (b) too idiotic to even consider living, orders the
marksman to fire.
II. FINDINGS
Does John Q. bite the dust? That is an inquiry you get yourself posing to a ton
during this film. To stay away from spoilers, I will not really expound, yet there is a
second when the film downright undermines the subject of John Q's. status, and I felt
conned.
There are entries where the entertainers rise above the material. John Q's. goodbye
to his child is one. Denise's relationship with her significant other is all around took care
of. However, it could be said unique distinctions should go to Woods and Duvall for
accomplishing what they can with jobs so ungracefully composed that their conduct
whipsaws between great, malevolent and amusing. Heche is profound sixed by her job,
which earns her a cent squeezing vixen and afterward gives her a cigarette to smoke
simply on the off chance that we missed that she's the reprobate. The Grim Reaper would
escape from this lady. A quarter of a year later, John's activities have started public
discussion about medical care, and every one of the prisoners affirm for his sake at
preliminary. John is cleared of endeavored murder and outfitted criminal activity, yet
indicted for grabbing and bogus detainment; his attorney guarantees him that he will
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probably serve close to two years. As John is headed to prison to anticipate his jail
sentence, a now-sound Michael says thanks to him.
III. ILLUSTRATES THE DIFFERENT TYPES/ CONCEPT IN DECISION MAKING
In the wake of neglecting to obtain substitute guide from somewhere else, John
and Denise battle to collect the actual cash, and the medical clinic ultimately gets ready to
send Michael home to kick the bucket, driving a distressed Denise to ask John to
accomplish something. Resolved to save his child, John goes up against Dr. Turner at
gunpoint and takes him and a few patients and staff prisoner in the ER, however permits
a discharge casualty inside to be dealt with. Police show up not long after, and arbitrator
Lt. Forthright Grimes connects with John, who recognizes himself as "John Q." and
requests that Payne put Michael's name on the beneficiary rundown.
Grimes conflicts with his prevalent Chief Gus Monroe, while the majority of the
prisoners feel for John and his situation and ponder the imperfections of the American
medical care framework. Consenting to deliver a portion of the patients, John is assaulted
by prisoner Mitch Quigley, whose sweetheart Julie Byrd is tired of Mitch's maltreatment
and assists with subdueing him all things considered. Cuffing Mitch, John liberates
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hopeful couple Steve and Miriam Smith and migrant mother Rosa Gonzales and her baby
child, who all proclaim their help for John to the news teams outside. Grimes and Payne
uncover John's activities to Denise, and Payne chooses to put Michael on the rundown
and play out the activity free of charge.
Superseding Grimes' order, Monroe permits a SWAT expert sharpshooter to enter
the ER by means of a ventilation duct, tricking John into the line of fire with a call from
Denise. John talks with Michael as his condition declines, while a news group hacks the
police reconnaissance channel and broadcasts John's discussion with his family. Finishing
the call, John finds the hacked news film as the sharpshooter fires, injuring him in the
shoulder. He overwhelms the expert rifleman, utilizing him as a human safeguard as he
ventures outside and repeats his requests before a cheering group. Michael is then
brought to the ER in return for the rifleman's delivery, while Denise is compelled to
remain outside at the police base.

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IV. CONCLUSIONS
John Q bounces on a few social platforms: the medical care framework, the abuse
of the functioning poor, political acting, media misuse. Lamentably, the film can't choose
which because it truly needs to advocate. So it wanders among explicit generalizations
and level characters. Authoritarian adages get a hefty exercise (Nobody, regardless of
how affluent they are, wears an ascot in the clinic, in the daytime. In any case, one of
John Q's rich patients does). Clinic overseers are painted as totally wanton, scarcely
human people. Furthermore, the liberal governmental issues of state-run medical care get
more than one attachment. This current film's not by and large clear on what its plan is,
however it needs you to realize it unquestionably has one. Rather than all that, Denzel
Washington is exactly what we anticipate that he should be—a persuading father who
really focuses profoundly on his perishing child and leads crowds to do likewise. Which,
for this situation means something bad, since it implies John Q can't simply be discounted
as below average narrating. Watchers will be maneuvered into John's good and
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enthusiastic situation, and some will arise with the end that John's activities are
reasonable. They're most certainly not. Worth examining? Indeed. Worth embracing and
additionally copying? No. Also, however the film gives a gesture to outcomes and equity
(a significant number of John's activities are rationalized by an unexpected development,
and for the rest he several years in jail), the generally passionate impact is to make the
watcher pull for a person who's outrageously violating the law and conceivably
attempting to play God. That, alongside foul language and the steady danger of savagery,
makes John Q a sketchy remedy for families.

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V. RECOMMENDATIONS
Guardians need to realize that this is an exceptional film that manages subjects of
death and disappointments of the clinical framework. These may be a great deal for
certain children to deal with, especially since a little youngster's life remains in a
precarious situation for a large portion of the film. Savagery and foul language are
irregular, restricted to short scenes or minutes. Battling, cutting, discharges, endeavored
murder, and endeavored self-destruction are included in the film. Families can discuss
John's activities. Is it true that they are legitimate? This film presents an ideal chance to
discuss the situation with the medical services framework in the United States. Is the
current framework reasonable? Should clinical consideration be attached to one’s
capacity to pay for it? Why or why not? While unsurprising, JOHN Q is holding on
various records. For one, the present status of the medical care framework is put being
investigated in this film. No doubt about it, this film is social discourse. What's more, the
message it states is boisterous and clear. In spite of its long windedness, John Q is
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engaging and includes a particularly fine presentation by Washington, whose depiction of
a dad's edginess is entirely obvious.

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