4. Orange Is The New Black (2013)
Set in a women’s prison, this television comedy brings a light-hearted, fictional twist to an otherwise staunch U.S. criminal justice system. When her wild past comes back to haunt her, resulting in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary, Piper Chapman reluctantly trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates. Trailer.
One of the most galvanizing public figures in modern history, South Africa’s Winnie Mandela’s story is often subsumed beneath her husband’s narrative. Winnie Mandela’s story emerges from the shadows in this eponymous biopic. Careful attention is paid to her Apartheid-era imprisonment that later defines her image. Trailer.
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‘Orange Is The New Black’ is make believe falsely painting an extremely diverse (women’s) prison population. We know that ain’t true. If white women went to prison in proportion to the number of black women who go to prison, then maybe this whole idiotic Neanderthal war on drugs would come to a close. Before then… daimn what an attempt to ameliorate our feelings about the atrocities being committed against black women too. This whole picture of Orange Is The New Black is a way to sway constructive debate away from what really is the issue – white men – and their appetite for so much ‘things’ that they have destroyed every group of people in the last 500 years. When will this nonsense end? When will the suffering stop? When are we going to start telling the truth?
Man, I hope that black boys and men can also come together to form a reading club called ‘Undefeated’. Man that will be a day!
Wouldn’t that be quite a day? LOL.
I loved big words. Those two can hold up a whole film along the lines of Blue Valentine, Like Crazy, and such. I like to see them on the screen sometime.