D Angelo In The Wire

In the first episode of the show ‘the wire’, as detective Kima mentions the drug war, her fellow detective, Carver says, “You can’t even think of calling this a war, because wars end, but this don’t.” The wire mainly focuses on the crime scenes related to drugs in Baltimore. Detective McNulty and Kima are the main figures on the law enforcement side, and D’Angelo, Avon, and Stringer are the main figures on the drug dealing side. D’Angelo Barksdale, the nephew of the head of the drug dealers, Avon Barksdale, he becomes more and more ambivalent about the drug trade. D’Angelo is a character who is quite thoughtful and has a leadership, yet also the one who can be sentimental and impulsive. In many of the scenes, they slowly depict his personality …show more content…
However, his fellow drug dealers curse at him and kicks him out. D’Angelo expresses his uncomfortable feelings by the attitude his fellow drug dealers act to drug addicts. He questions them why the drug dealing has to involve frequent violence and inhumanity unlike other businesses. While he is saying this, the camera spins around D’Angelo and his fellows. D’Angelo is sitting on top of the bench while telling them his opinion, as if he was lecturing, which emphasizes his authority as a leader of the crew. His fellows don’t agree with him, but he continues to persuade them by pointing out the main reason police officers are deluging into the neighborhood habitually is because of the murder case, not because of narcotics. Spinning was used frequently for shooting the dialogue among D’Angelo’s crew to effectively show the ongoing controversy to the …show more content…
He and his girlfriend are all dressed up, but from the beginning, he feels humiliated by the waiters due to his unaccustomedness of the ambiance of the restaurant. The restaurant’s staff remains polite and patient on the outside, but anyone can sense their cold, condescending tone. The camera keeps angling the waiters from the bottom, from D’Angelo’s view, which emphasizes the superiority of them. He also keeps looking around and notices that other people seem to match with the ambiance of the restaurant and enjoying their time with other people. Even though he is in this elegant restaurant with other people, eat and act like them in the restaurant, he realizes he does not belong in this world. He hears the murmur of the casual, jolly conversation, the clinking of glasses, the Beethoven sonata played on the piano. He tells his girlfriend how he feels uneasy about this situation, and no matter how hard he tries, his background as a drug dealer keeps him from being part of the outer society. This scene is more important than others that he verbalized his uneasiness about his background to other person for the first time. In contrast, his girlfriend cuts off his words, looking preposterous, and says the money is all that matters. However, in this speech and the entire after-dinner conversation, D’Angelo’s biggest