Agrarians often talk of the abhorrent losses we sustain in globalization. Machines have replaced humans as the source of community resulting in listless existences. In this short movie an agrarian father makes one last effort to deftly implant images of the simple, good life in his son's mind. Odds are you'll come away wishing you had a boat and some fish to catch instead of email.
This is a must for anyone that lived after Ali was in his prime. Get an inside look at the bombastic progenitor of the modern professional athlete mantra. He changed the world, in my opinion. You'll be captivated by all that you did not know and even more so by the person. You'll be called on the carpet if you combated ESPN for hailing him as the third greatest athlete of all time. If your father, when Ali is mentioned, stalls for a second or a minute or for several moments, as if to be playing back moving images of The Man, as if to be in true reverie, then make sure you check out this documentary to find out why. You'll be smarter and relevantly impacted for having watched this one.
Man, this one's tough. Don't just wander into this. My admonition is that you understand how little you understand about gang-mindset, even if you regularly indulge in History Channel's gangland. Keep an eye out for those moments when the main characters figure something out. Rightly so, they connect the dots faster than you. Being forced to accept their harsh realities inevitably becomes your prerogative as the viewer in a cushioned seat. Your seat will feel like it has needles in it, though. Don't let the discomfort deter you, this is some of the best acting I've seen in a while and one of the better scripts to come out of immigration cinema.
The National Science Foundation is more than entertained by an eccentric and prickly Werner Herzog. They sent him to Antarctica, a place as crazy as he is, to find out why monkeys don't saddle a horse and ride off into the sunset. In this crazy place Herzog finds crazy people and captures some far out images. It all comes full circle with a soundtrack that will leave you googling "encounters end world soundtrack." A must see, you won't believe it but your gut will.
I checked this out of my university library* in 2003 because I was in an art movie phase. After, I thought about it for like nine years. Recently it popped up in my Netflix 'Watch it Again'. I watched it again. I am still thinking about it. The theme is not original, the story is not original, the way it is made is not original. However, its way into a subculture's subculture is. The extended scenes allow the actors to be a touch more real even though they're encompassed by what has to be unreal. A series of bad choices, usually cumbersome to a viewer, are experienced more through words, thereby being something we can relate to. The idea is that the only way to make sense of ghetto life is through rhymes. I think this is a pretty good idea, if not a necessity.
*A 'bad boy' is often used as slang for one's passport. Its use here implies a sense of "this movie is a good one, you should watch it." In other words, its a provocative way to refer to something.
*If you don't know, I didn't for a long time, your local library or your university library will rent movies out to you for free. Most likely, the folks renting them to you will be librarians. I've found that librarians are some of the coolest people around. Check out your local library and check out some free movies.
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