Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...structure to encourage her dominance. Gradually his rage grows, he longs to assert his control over himself, his woman and his race; finally, he explodes. But when he does it is in terms of spontaneous and largely ineffect ive outbursts of rage that were directed inward and hurt the ghetto dweller most." Why? Because it was not equality that was being pursued but a kind of superiority--black manhood, black macho--which would combine the ghetto cunning, cool, and unrestrained authority...
Cudjoe said the oppression of "physical slavery" has been replaced by "wage slavery" and the "spiritual" degradation of the ghetto...
...this takes place in a faceless city where everything's for sale--the whole place has an air of colorful hopelessness, a Club Med in the ghetto. "You ought to be in pictures," says a Kodak ad. The lottery offers to make you a millionaire. And through all of this is wandering Collins. He does his business in porno lounges, movie theaters, used car lots--everything's for sale and it all has to be paid...
...this tends to make the film increasingly silly. Weir gives up on making the characters anything more than symbols, points on the line between evil white and primitive good. A few scenes of the ghetto in which the Aborigines live are lifeless, the city has no character, and the film disintegrates into stock effects. Chamberlain discovers a secret Aborigine city beneath Sydney, and learns that an ancient white civilization was destroyed by a giant tidal wave, and that another one is due very soon. Some sort of eternal justice will destroy the white man's injustice. At the very...
...young turn to crime, so do the poor. The turn to crime as the clearest opportunity for success, and the route taken by their role models; IBM doesn't recruit in the ghetto, but the numbers runners do. And the need for success, almost palpable in affluent American society, redoubled by television, cannot be underestimated; lack of material success means lack of identity, and the precarious sense of self of poor people causes them to seek the excitement of crime to confirm their existence...