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  Boyz n the Hood 1991

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Why do you think there are so many liquor stores?

  John Singleton's film is a brilliant piece that makes an important exposition on the 90's black American Neighbourhoods and its brutality. It is subtle, even though its themes and setting are bloody and violent. It opens up like a lofi cinematic piece: a group of stylish children growing up to the traumatic knowledgeable of what they'll soon become. I love seeing Ice Cube in these kind of movies. He brings…

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  Titanic 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  Love works hard, but the Titanic is obsessed with destruction.

  I've finally seen this film after years of my apathy towards it. For someone that has heard the real Titanic story over and over again, I presumed it'd make no difference watching it. This is one of those films that are spoiled in the unresting mouths of people who we have no control over. My friends from childhood had all seen the Titanic, so I already visualised it when they…

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  Menace II Society 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  Brutal, punchy. Can't get my head around everything yet. Closest thing I've seen to City of God. I love Jada Pinket's eyes and sleek. Still need to settle out on how bloody this really is. Really strong film here. Awesome, spectacular directing too.

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  Hotel Rwanda 2004

  Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Genocide:

  1: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
  "a campaign of genocide"
  —Oxford languages

  2: a metaphor for Africa.
  Genocide is a branch of the African curse. Genocide has no measure. Genocide only ends when it has already been committed. Genocide is not in the amount of bodies, but a diplomatic decision that is arrived at after the genocide has taken…

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