the world
I really think that Swarthmore is going to destroy my previously happy relationship with pop culture in general. I just watched about an hour of Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle and all I did was get angry. I just laid in bed getting upset about stereotypical race and gender roles, specifically a few scenes involving Bernie Mac and a little black boy who screams something like "you never mess with a black mans hair!" For some reason it reminded me of that scene in Taxi Driver with the angry black man walking down the sidewalk and screaming.
The other day I was talking to my dad, who lived in New York City in the late 70's, about Taxi Driver and he mentioned that when he first saw it he was awestruck by how realistic the street scenes were. I thought he was talking about the cab scenes where he goes by Fascination, etc., but he was actually talking about the angry black man scene. I don't know what to think about this.
There was also an interesting scene where Demi Moore practically jacks off a gun. And then there were weird body things, but I'm not even going to go into that.
I think what upsets me most is that I feel like everyone else should get upset over these things because they're so blatant. I really think that after college, and god help me if I go to grad school (where I'm not sure what I'd study, but I can't see myself not going), I'm just going to think that the entire world is helplessly stupid and that I'll attempt to separate myself from it by falling further and further into the bowels of academia.
I know that I'm taking this way too far, I mean, it wasn't a serious movie or anything, but it upset me nonetheless.
I guess I'll get back to watching more tv now.