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Liberal Arts (2012)
Lame
Awful. A picture punctuated by rehashed quotes and profound statements.
I went to Kenyon.
When your in school, especially a small 'thinkers' camp; basically everyone thinks he or she is the center of the universe and that no one has ever done or thought anything prior to their existence.
Then, the 'Beast in the Jungle' is set loose in the 'real' world.
So what? My English degree got me jobs driving a fork lift, stuffing envelopes and cleaning stalls. At least the latter taught me something important: the world is not waiting on anyone.
An attempt to be intellectual? More like an attempt to break into mainstream pictures.
And it's not even borderline accurate.
A college recruiter can not afford to live in Manhattan. It took me ten years to get there and I am never going back.
Why? Spend half of your income on a shoe box apartment and be swamped by the disciples of 'Sex and the City'? It does not seem worth the effort.
Don't waste your time on this 'Realistic' yet hopelessly 'Romantic' nonsense.
Its not Literature, Cinema or Art.
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Good movie -- some historical Goofs
Tre's father who is 34 years old -- according to the dialogue -- talks about going to Vietnam. Not possible: U.S. direct action officially ended in early 1973 ( and had been in decline since its height in 1969 ).
So if he had joined the army when was 17 -- it would have been 1974, and he would not have gone to Vietnam. Even, and it didn't happen, if some recruit joined at that time, and was sent there, it would be to do paper work. Combat arms was gone.
1972 was the end for the U.S. ( its just a historical error in the screenplay's details ).
Also Cocaine was huge since the early 70s. If there is a demand for a product, criminals will give people what they want.
The difference between someone snorting uncut cocaine at a Beverly Hills party and someone smoking rock in a hood is merely economics: its what form of the substance you can afford and how you get it.
Coke is in as much demand for rich white people as it is for poor blacks ( or poor whites ).
So why would their be a conspiracy to destroy the black hoods when dope dealers ( and I mean the big shots ) would be getting rid of a significant part of their market.
Trying to present it as a government conspiracy is simply absurd. But LW's character is 'racist' and in many ways ignorant and logically absurd.
And I hate it when the 'White' college educated people say that Rick's murder was a thing of 'honor' -- carried through by his assassins.
Where is there honor in killing an unarmed person for nothing more than bs pride. Its the same bs that is still going on now.
It's not people of honor, it's people who don't care about right or wrong and people who can go eat a burger and french fries after they just blew away an innocent person.
Still a good film.