Why We Bang Full Documentary
The film, "Why We Bang," produced and directed by Orlando Myrics and Clifford Jordan for Ghetto Logik Entertainment is an independent film that documents the historical background of LA's Bloods and Crips gangs, then transitions into several interviews of current and former members of the Bloods and Crips of Los Angeles.
Ghetto Logik, a Film Company based in South Los Angeles offers their first urban documentary as a result of being disappointed in seeing outsiders far too often portray the stories of ghetto residents. "We just got tired of seeing people, not from our community making so called "Hood movies" that did not really depict what our community was all about, our goal is to bring real images and real stories about real people to the big screen."
Their first effort, "Why We Bang" is an in-depth look into Gang Culture in Los Angeles that shows up-close, the life in South Los Angeles, talking and walking with real gang members first hand. Their approach was to show the gangs, their motivations and deadliness and to capture the voices of the mothers who have lost children to the violence that gangs bring. Their story, through several narratives will inform you Why We Bang.
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posted by Dmitry Davydov at 5:43 AM
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This is a particularly tedious documentary. I stopped watching after approximately 15 minutes.
It's poorly edited, and the narrative is not well-conceived.
Cle 'Bone' Sloan's "Bastards of the Party" (http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/bastardsoftheparty/interview.html)
covers all of the same ground as this documentary (and a good deal more) and has far better production value.
Given the subject matter, and the relatively shallow treatment of it in film, you don't need to watch more than one.
I recommend the HBO title.
6:52 PM
Please, needs sub-titles.
5:28 PM
Know what I'm sayin?
1:51 PM
Lol.
This is what we get for making slavery illegal. And being born and raised in the "hood" is no excuse to not choose a better life for yourself. They can easily move out to another state or country to pursue something else, other than "bangin".
But if crack and killing is what fulfills them, then thats fine, just don't go killing inocents.
9:13 AM
I got tired of the film after a while. I couldn't understand what the hell they were saying and every other word was either "nigga" or "y'know-whatim-sayin?" It was poorly edited and difficult to follow.
1:02 AM
Like others I consider this pretty much unwatchable. Very amateur and the dialogue is awful.
7:22 AM
The problem is complex and there is no easy solution really. Very intricate marriage between race, power, drugs, economics, policies and politics. Race is a very sensitive issue and whenever it surfaces in any topic in America, passion will speak and reason will have no say....
U put all the niggers in colleges and u solve the issue? You make all of them succeed economically and you fix the issue? Even if we were to stop killing ourselves, would that resolve the case?
4:01 PM
yeah cuh, yeah cuz, know what i'm sayin? damn no wonder these people keep killing eachother.
2:51 AM
Fascinating, each and everyone of the commentary was either derogatory, had racist undertones, and complains about the dialogue (?). It's a documentary about street violence among people that are unstable criminals. How easy do you think it is to get access to that world?
And the "anonymous" using the slave rhetoric. Did your parents reason the same when the Southern and Northern Irish beat the crap out of each other in the late 70's. Were they fighting b/c they were "white"? Or were they fighting b/c England's been messing with the Irish for several hundreds of years, systematically killing of their ancient history, religion and culture. Do you think that the Irish was perhaps poor, disillusioned, and desperate?
Think. Read. Contemplate. Discuss.
9:30 PM
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