A group as powerful as N.W.A. deserves a powerful movie, and this movie holds up. Flex Gary Gray, the director, captures all that N.W.A. stood for and their journey to the top of the music world. This movie is fantastic, in the way it illustrates the creation of the most influential music group in history and also how it gives you an understanding of their greatest songs by showing us the real-life events that gave them the inspiration for those songs.
In the 1980s, African-American youths in Compton were faced with poverty, police harassment, drugs, and violence. Five friends, known as Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Jr.), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), MC Ren (Aldis Hodge), and DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) decide to try their …show more content…
One scene that shows this, is the scene where N.W.A. are in a hotel room with lots of young females when an angry boyfriend comes looking for his “girl”, and he has a gun. When he threatens N.W.A. with his gun, they come rushing out with a whole arsenal of weapons to scare him off. This shows the sad stereotypes that all Africa Americans have guns and are violent, which give Africa Americans a bad name. The flip side to this is the police brutality which is shown in this movie when the Rodney King case is shown in the movie, if your unfamiliar with it, it was the beating of an unarmed Africa American citizen, the significance of this was that there was video footage of it and it was very high profile with lots of media attention. This makes the movie span generational boundaries because it makes the younger people ask their parents about it and if they knew that, this stuff was going on, on the other side of the world. When I asked my parents about it they didn’t know any of the stuff shown in this film was to that extent. The film is a timely reminder of the racial divides that still seem to be so apparent in the U.S.A. by what we see on the
In the 1980s, African-American youths in Compton were faced with poverty, police harassment, drugs, and violence. Five friends, known as Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Jr.), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), MC Ren (Aldis Hodge), and DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) decide to try their …show more content…
One scene that shows this, is the scene where N.W.A. are in a hotel room with lots of young females when an angry boyfriend comes looking for his “girl”, and he has a gun. When he threatens N.W.A. with his gun, they come rushing out with a whole arsenal of weapons to scare him off. This shows the sad stereotypes that all Africa Americans have guns and are violent, which give Africa Americans a bad name. The flip side to this is the police brutality which is shown in this movie when the Rodney King case is shown in the movie, if your unfamiliar with it, it was the beating of an unarmed Africa American citizen, the significance of this was that there was video footage of it and it was very high profile with lots of media attention. This makes the movie span generational boundaries because it makes the younger people ask their parents about it and if they knew that, this stuff was going on, on the other side of the world. When I asked my parents about it they didn’t know any of the stuff shown in this film was to that extent. The film is a timely reminder of the racial divides that still seem to be so apparent in the U.S.A. by what we see on the