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Boyz n the Hood
1991 · Film · 112 min
Directed by John Singleton
Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of street life. As tragedy strikes close to home, their friendship, choices, and hopes for a better future are put to the ultimate test.
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> If I can believe the current narrative things have been going from bad to worse to black people walk the streets in fear of their lives from racist cops in the last few years.
That's not new, it's just better publicized now:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/movies/boyz-n-the-hood-john-singleton.html:
> ‘Boyz N the Hood’ at 30: A Vivid Examination of Racism at Work
> ...This is evident when Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) interacts with Los Angeles’s finest. As a child he sees how even a Black police officer doesn’t take his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), seriously when he reports a home break-in; when Tre is older, the same officer pulls a gun on him during a routine traffic stop. He quickly learns that the cops are there to neither protect nor serve him or his neighbors. What Singleton shows us about the relationship between the police and Black residents may be well understood now, but at the time it was rare for the Black community’s view on policing to be so well embodied by Hollywood. I was always taught to be wary of officers as a young Black man, but this was one of the first times I saw the rationale for that fear onscreen in a major American film.
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> Either everyone has been blind for decades or the current narrative about racism is a lie meant to achieve some political purpose. I do not believe the former to be true so the latter seems to be the answer but that makes me wonder why the parent poster brought up the bad racism in SF and LA and the racism in Boise, Idaho.
Like most things, it's not that black and white, but a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.
I try to watch movies that show me who/what I am, where I came from to better understand myself for the future wherever I can find it. One requirement however, is that it cannot be a reflection of current events except that is of my own making.
Not in any particular order and may repeat many of the fine recommendations already said....
1. The Five-Year Engagement https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1195478/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
2. The Trigger Effect https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117965/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
3. Sweet November https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230838/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
4. Les Miserables (1978) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077936/
5. The Vow (i got married to the music from The Nationals - England (instrumental) :) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606389/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
6. The Family Man (Nicolas Cage before he gone off the edge) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
7. Boyz n the Hood https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101507/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
8. Up (I'm a new dad and I did Big Brothers to 3 boys so Up means a lot to me) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
9. Ghost Town https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995039/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
10. People Like Us https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1716777/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
11. One Hour Photo (Reminding us how incredible Robin William...was ) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265459/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
WOW...few things..
1. I realize a little psych profiling can show how old you are ;-) [EDIT] I mean how old I am!! :)
2. I'm a sucker for romcom light hearted shows that gives me time to reflect.
man.. I realize I need to look into this list, grow it and rewatch.
Enjoy!