Urban Politics Brick City - Essay

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In a fictional film, it is unlikely that a successful former member of the Bloods would be shown as triumphing over his life on the streets. The messiness of nonfiction allows the filmmakers to embrace human complexity. While Brick City was criticized for lacking an "entirely satisfying narrative through-line. It's an involving, often moving, slice of Newark city life, but in the end, the stories of both the city and its spotlighted residents feel very unfinished," this is inevitable because of the fact that it is more interested in showing the different sides of the city than simplifying the resident's experiences to simply tell a 'good story' (Sepinwall 2009). From a narrative point-of-view, the episode may lag at times, but the program always has a sense of 'truthfulness' in the respect it bestows to the residents on the streets and the representatives of city politics.

This theme of the video is conveyed again and again, in an understandable but non-dogmatic manner, as scenes of life on the street and the helplessness many residents feel is alleviated with scenes of DaShaun and Booker's hopefulness. There is no singular, 'real' Newark -- there are many sides to Newark, and neither the image of a crime-ridden city on the news nor the press releases of the Mayor's office is a complete...

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This video is a learning experience in the complexity of people's emotional lives in an urban environment. There is joy as well as pain.
Works Cited

"Episode 4: Circus." Brick City. September 24, 2009. [June 15, 2011].

http://www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/episodes/season-1/brick-city-circus/

Sepinwall, Alan. "Brick City -- review." September 9, 2009. [June 15, 2011].

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/09/brick_city_review_sepinwall_on.html

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Works Cited

"Episode 4: Circus." Brick City. September 24, 2009. [June 15, 2011].

http://www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/episodes/season-1/brick-city-circus/

Sepinwall, Alan. "Brick City -- review." September 9, 2009. [June 15, 2011].

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/09/brick_city_review_sepinwall_on.html


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