Beat Street

Beat Street... a movie I must say that caught my attention once I seen it on TV and again once it was shown for the class. I sometimes forget how the movie went so it was nice to get a reminder on the movie went and the messages that may come along with it as well. The main message that was being stressed through the movie was would be to be able to beat the hard cold streets out there that has no love for anyone? If you are strong enough to beat all of what happens on those streets and reach a better place. When I first seen the movie I didn't pay attention to it as much, I just looked at it like it was another regular movie. Maybe another reason I didn't pay attention to it so much because it was nothing really new to me, but maybe the break dancing. All of that stuff in that movie I have seen so many times before and after a while things like that don't compel to you as much anymore. I love the meaning that the movie brings and how it shows that in life you will not always have a good ending but as long as you get something positive out of it. At the end of the movie the boy Ramo had to die a tragic death due to him trying to catch a another tagger that was an enemy of his. It was his pride and anger that drove him to his death while his friend Kenny tried to stop Ramo from committing this action that caused his death. I had to deal with some of this within my life seeing people die over foolish things because their pride stepped in the way of their conscience and led them to dying. This movie to me was just another movie, nothing significant about it because most of the things I seen in this movie I have dealt with in my life. But it was interesting to see that other people were really dialed into the movie and it must have really caught their attention. I sat their and wondered if they were so interested in the movie because of the flashy break dancing, or the weird clothing, or the message itself?