This
week has been very blah for me. Nothing
has really happened, except that every day I wake up more tired than I was the
day before. I wish I could get out of
this funk of being tired and wanting to do absolutely nothing. I have heard people say that an easy way to
get more energy is to fake it at first.
They say that eventually, the real energy will come. That sounds great, but every morning I am
struggling to put on mascara, which is a big deal for me because otherwise I
would have no eyelashes.
As always, I would like to be more
ahead in this class, but I’m happy where I am at the moment. I’m a little anxious about the Projects. I chose to do a Portfolio and I’m happy with
my choice but I’m just anxious to see other people’s projects and their
reactions to my own. I think the first
week of projects went ok. I didn’t
receive too much negative feedback and overall, I was pleased with what was
said.
Something interesting that I did in
another class was that I got to watch the film New Jack City. The film is
about a cocaine dealer within Harlem destroying his own community through the
selling of drugs. I like the film
because it truly doesn’t glamorize drug culture. Instead, it shows a man who tears down his
community through selling cocaine, killing all of those who oppose, even his
best friend since childhood, and essentially becoming a drug lord who controls
the community. The one thing that I found
interesting about the film was how he bought the community off. At one point in the film, the drug lord gives
food to the entire community and at another time he buys off the local reverend
by giving his daughter her dream wedding.
However, his true colors are eventually shown because later on in the
wedding scene he uses a flower girl as a human shield during a shoot out. I found this film to be interesting and I
wonder why it is not as remembered as other films from the 90s.
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Wesley Snipes plays the drug lord within the film New Jack City. Source: Wikimedia
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