https://youtu.be/TRxA1ivFYW4?si=z00tZZYkzJBQzABn
One of the great movies of the era....
The time and place was perfect to show us all were we are, were we are going.
You know the inner city is the standard example of civilization's decay right?
But consider this;
I saw that movie very young. the message to me from elders was....
"she likes kids..." ok you should like kids I decided.
I got a little older.... "she liked a family but the man didn't...." ok well the man should like a family.
I little older..."she just wants the welfare and the man doesn't....."
by now living in a city a youngster notices things.... then same people abusing this, that, there, them, themselves.....always seeming to get away with it. hmmm...... a pattern?
a little older ...... I learned what institutionalized means. and I begin to feel that people are put and held in such envirinments.
I decided this is true. my reason? Claudine was an excellent production. and I was lucky enough to have public television to compare that and similar efforts to. I saw the good in everything around me and the good people who make it so. which btw allowed me to separate it from the bad.....
back to Claudine. a little older now.....
I decide that there are bad forces wanting to institutionalize us for the purpose of keeping us down in despair. so people "want" bad for you.... they want that person to keep on beating their partner, abusing drugs, stealing, not eating right,....
There was a scene where Claudine found out that her daughter was on her way to perpetuating the cycle she herself was caught in and was enraged......
now forward to the early 2000's
when Obama just began to suggest he was going to run for president. I had seen this face around and heard his name mentioned, even long before he was a senator.
waayyy back in those early impressionable days of public television. so being older than me but not much older must have had the same impressions I did of many things. he must have seen the good at work.. everybody working to the better.......
https://youtu.be/7X5W_UXE41E?si=_y9yWp1EvTmip0NO