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Poverty porn?? What on earth? Precious, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Color Purple, etc, etc are all stories of strong people overcoming hardship, maintaining their will to live and succeed despite horrible circumstances and repeated knock-downs. That has probably been the basis of more movies historically than any other genre except love stories. Just because they are black and live in the ghetto their stories of living through and overcoming adversity must be not only separated from all the others, but demeaned with the title "poverty porn"?
People watch these movies for the same reasons we watched Rocky, people love to root for underdogs and see people triumph over adversity. I think you need help if you see it as wallowing in their misery rather than rooting for them to succeed, and I feel bad for you because you must live an emotionally bereft life for this view to even occur to you.
Poverty porn?? What on earth? Precious, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Color Purple, etc, etc are all stories of strong people overcoming hardship, maintaining their will to live and succeed despite horrible circumstances and repeated knock-downs. That has probably been the basis of more movies historically than any other genre except love stories. Just because they are black and live in the ghetto their stories of living through and overcoming adversity must be not only separated from all the others, but demeaned with the title "poverty porn"?
People watch these movies for the same reasons we watched Rocky, people love to root for underdogs and see people triumph over adversity. I think you need help if you see it as wallowing in their misery rather than rooting for them to succeed, and I feel bad for you because you must live an emotionally bereft life for this view to even occur to you.
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Poverty porn?? What on earth? Precious, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Color Purple, etc, etc are all stories of strong people overcoming hardship, maintaining their will to live and succeed despite horrible circumstances and repeated knock-downs. That has probably been the basis of more movies historically than any other genre except love stories. Just because they are black and live in the ghetto their stories of living through and overcoming adversity must be not only separated from all the others, but demeaned with the title "poverty porn"?
People watch these movies for the same reasons we watched Rocky, people love to root for underdogs and see people triumph over adversity. I think you need help if you see it as wallowing in their misery rather than rooting for them to succeed, and I feel bad for you because you must live an emotionally bereft life for this view to even occur to you.
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