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 I enjoyed how Tales from the Hood discussed important issues happening within the black

community. The film opening up with the story of police brutality and the consequences of it, I

believe, was very pertinent to our society today. I enjoyed how the film displayed the guilt that

the cop felt after brutally killing Martin. While the revenge in the film was him coming back to

life and killing everyone, I liked how the film displayed that the real thing that haunts a person is

guilt. To me, this displayed just how horrible police brutality is to the black community.

Throwing the pain back onto the person who inflicted it, for people who uphold police brutality,

is truly horrifying. I hope that through the film, people think harder about how police brutality

affects a community, even if it is through a more unrealistic portrayal such as in the film. I also

believe that the director was trying to discuss different issues such as police brutality, child

abuse, and gang violence with supernatural elements as a way to bring light to these situations

and display the horrors of these topics while also being entertaining. Through being entertaining,

viewers will continue watching the film, but leave with a deeper understanding/empathy for the

challenges that people in these communities deal with.

For Wet Pain, at first, I did not know what to expect and initially, I was shocked. I did enjoy the

writing, especially considering I do not usually read horror stories/novels. The first thing that

shocked me was when the main character found an old picture of a KKK meeting. I was mainly

shocked because I did not expect the horror in the story to be so real. While there were

supernatural/unrealistic elements in the short story, the horror of pure hatred/racism I did not

expect to be so apparent. Because of that it was a little shocking but made me enjoy the talent of

the writer even more. To make something like racism or the KKK feel so shocking/horrifying

just by reading it, takes a great skill that I can appreciate. Although I have experienced racism in

real life, reading it on the page brought back those feelings like I was back in those

uncomfortable moments. While it was uncomfortable, I also believe it is needed for people who

may not experience that to understand what it is like. The writing made it feel like you were

experiencing everything at the same time as the characters. While this is uncomfortable, I believe

the author did this to convey how horrible and deadly that sort of hatred is.

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