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IIte i don't make it a habit watching these type of movies but since HBO, CMAX and wack ass showtime have a 10 movie rotation going on (not showtime they stay showing terrible/ uninteresting films) I sometimes succumb to some movies i would not otherwise glance at. The
other day I saw SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE for the first time. Now I had no plans on seeing this film, i dismissed it as something i wouldn't be interested in. The demographics of the film didnt demand any interest from me and I heard it was a musical so I def was not about to see no slumdog become a millionaire. One morning i wake up and it just started so i was like fuck it It just started and it won awards so why the eff not.
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Safe to say the movie was tight. There were alot of elements to it. The way it was shot, the cinematography the story was all different yet the same (if that makes any sense) that is all imna say cause I try not to spoil anything...or anyone ;-)





Another movie that I ended up watching due to circumstance was "Not Easily Broken". At first i thought it was a tyler perry flick so i definitely wasn't gonna see it but again, I didn't have anything to do at the moment and it was in its early stages so I said fuck it. Considering Morris Chestnut being in the movie it was okaaay. It made me think about alot of things. Aight spoiler alert I know what I just said above but...fuck it! im trying to tell you something.

This movie brought to light alot of issues in relationships that has never applied to me...ever but its not beyond the realm of possibility in the future. = i felt sorry for the main character ummm Morris Chestnut's character (Dave).
Here he was apparently not the breadwinner of his (loosely) household for some reason and his wife reminds him of that daily. He working in the community and is a goood dude but his wife doesnt want that for him she wants him to do this that and the third basically in an attempt to deter him from his passion of helping the kids in his community for i guess a more lucrative way to spend his time.

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there was this one quote that he said that had me thinking:

Dave Johnson: "Down through history men have always been measured by how hard they work and cultivated, how well the protected their wife and children. In the old days woman saw their man as conquerers, providers, heroes. But somewhere along the line that changed, woman started to became their own hero, maybe it was because their man forgot to be reliable or because woman don't want to be protected anymore or maybe woman had to be their own hero because of the pain they had to endure in life. But whatever the cause, the world took away a man's reason for being a man. It told him he wasn't important anymore and when that happened, it turn the whole world upside down. " - IMDB

It made me think of the world today and where we as black men are. We, as a culture (in general) are surrounded by the wrong examples of what a Man is in terms of his mission, his duties and his place in the family. We have fathers not taking care of their kids in a disturbing rate. We have dudes going into a lifestyle that doesn't enable them to take care of a family much less themselves; If anything the lifestyle does quite the opposite and becomes their undoing. Lil boys will see that and grow up continue to do what their predecessors was doing and contributing to a negative cycle not believing that they can strive for/achieve something better. Now while all this is happening young ladies develop a motivation to not become stuck in the same rut many of their moms or their friends are in, you know, effin with some lame ass drug dealing ass, deadbeat niggamon who hits them or effs with a multitude of other females.
Now that i think about it, women as a whole have been getting their stuff together (compared to back in the day when they couldn't) but black women are probably the most fervid with theirs. They really go after it and I'm saying that WE (Black Males) are reason behind their collective drive, and not in a good way.
So these same ladies grow up motivated and become their own "personal heroes" saving themselves from a life of sub mediocrity. And it makes sense to do so, not every Juliet is gonna have a a Romeo there are alot more women in the world than men and it doesn't help that most of us black males are getting killed or locked up.

Ayye! not to say that all of us Men are diced shit some black males been doing their thing out there especially when it comes to setting themselves up to sustain their own familial empire one day; especially us, the ones on the come up. Im just saying although our numbers are growing the fact that women (in general) don't trust us to take care of things bugs me. It puts us black males further in a negative light and I'm not trying to end up as an incompetent dunce like some of us out here. Granted i like being needed, i might not always want to help due to one reason or another but it feels aight and homie in the movie seemed drained from his predicament. It all ended well though of course (the Hollywood way) but iunno the movie made me think.