Word: paranoia
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...Kilo” nails a successful drug dealer’s paranoia, and the guns-n-drugs romp “R.A.G.U.” turns ugly when Raekwon breaks his wrist (he says, wonderfully, “I fucked up my writin’ hand”) and an accomplice shoots himself in the groin...
...most black men would surely tell you that racial profiling-in all its many, insidious forms-remains a frustrating, demoralizing and all-too-common experience. As Dave Chappelle noted to Oprah when explaining the racism he felt he encountered in show business, ?What is a black man without his paranoia intact?? Sadly, these days, still not much...
...machine you please and you choose the seatbelt law? DJ Babu saves the day occasionally. “Back Again” is a great single with chipmunked out vocal samples and an insistent guitar loop. “Alarm Clock Music” brings the close-quarters paranoia that’s been floating around the West Coast for years, and “20/20” is stuffed, Bomb Squad-style, to the breaking point. The MCs respond well to Babu’s better beats, shifting the vocal delivery from the throat to the gut. It?...
That is surely an apt subject for a movie--even, and especially, a popcorn movie. If a cheapo '50s fantasy called Invasion of the Body Snatchers could also be a rich parable of conformist paranoia, and if The Matrix could clue kids into mathematics and philosophy, then a film as bold and thoughtful as V for Vendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules...
...vocabulary of legitimacy and sovereign rights figure prominently in his pronouncements defending Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. These sort of relativist arguments are plausible on one level—we have nuclear weapons after all—but fall apart when one notes the extreme paranoia and totalitarianism prevalent in the Iranian regime...