![]() Comprised of five talented, street-smart young men, N.W.A. It hits us in the face and stomps on the audience hard, as if its strapped with brass knuckles and decked out in the latest Nikes, portraying the race relations in Los Angeles as they were - ugly and disgraceful.This portrayal only fits that of N.W.A.'s music and character. is to get us angry at the injustice that occurred in the 1980's and 1990's and remind us that this kind of hate still frighteningly occurs today. Gary Gray's biopic on the acclaimed, pioneering rap group N.W.A. N**** is sellin' narcotics" from the latter song despite being so young.I may not have ever experienced racial injustice in my life, but I was at least aware of racial double standards at a young age. I know I'm not going to get many likes for this review, but what the hell. They can't tolerate the idea of black male victims, so they instantly start a media backlash portraying the victims as criminals.I say this is a good movie, a powerful, exciting film that presents a side of American life that is almost never seen on the screen. The scenes of NWA being roughed up by police are a terrible threat to the powerful elements in our society, who stay in power only by keeping white people scared of black men. They're frightened because this movie gets white audiences to see young black men as something other than dangerous criminals. But when black men do it today that's dangerous and irresponsible!There are very powerful elements in this country that are terribly frightened by this movie. When Cagney postures like a thug in some ancient piece of crap that's cool. But you can't do that with black men who rap about crime, even when they aren't actually criminals themselves. From PUBLIC ENEMY to THE GODFATHER, white audiences have always loved to sentimentalize their own criminals. It's okay to glamorize white criminals, because Hollywood was built on that. The problem with this movie is that the people who made it actually dared to portray young, angry black men as heroic, not as criminals or predators. The dead ones are no longer scary and threatening. Oh, and let's all get sentimental about Eazy E because he's dead, and young black men are okay once they're dead. Dre and Ice Cube on the basis of things they did twenty years ago. Quick, let's bury the good reviews! Let's spawn a phony backlash! Let's discredit Dr. The real truth about how their police treat minorities every day.
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