Watching movies is one of my favorite past times. I think films are a great potrayal of fictional and even real life situations people have to deal with. One of my all time favorite films would have to be Juice. In this movie characters Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheemm (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins)are a group of high school friends who deal with the pressures of inner city gang violence and robbery. Bishop, who I consider the trouble maker of the crew, grows tired of being robbed and not being able to defend him self just by fighting. He goes to the extreme of getting his hands on a gun one day. By having a gun in his possession Bishop feels in control, fearless, and powerful. This power gets to Bishop's head and soon turns on his friends because he feels overly supreme.
Bishop really loses it one night after a DJ competition gig Q had participated in. He wanted rob a local corner store but all of the crew wasn't down for the cause. Since all the guys didn't back him up, he felt betrayed. He took it upon himself to shoot his friends out of fear that they would snitch on him for robbing the corner store and shooting the owner.
This film never fails to leave me in suspense and I hope we get to view films as such in class that will inspire us students a create written essays that we can relate to and have vivid examples from.
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