Ghett'a Life review

Some low budget films are hard to take seriously. They lack of the “reality feel” that great productions have taught us to see and believe. Ghett'a Life is different from Rockers, and from The Harder they Come because it tries to create a hero figure in the main character that looks more close from those other heroes, the Hollywood ones, the epic ones. And I think thats’ the main fail from this movie.

There are different ways of seen life in these three movies we’ve watched. First was the anti-hero, then this strange Robin Hood gang, now the poor young man that wants to fight for his country even if the political differences from his family and his friends and trainers are a wall between him and his goals. In Ghett’a Life there’s a nation pride in an institutional way. There’s a flag to fight for, in the other ones, nation is the people, the way of life, the friends, and a non individualistic way of resistance.

Ghett'a life has a bad guy, corrupted by power and identified as a law offender. The good guy does just good things, the good guy walks throw the good path, and by the will of destiny he finally gets his triumph. Life isn’t that way, the triumphalism of this movie executive producer, a rap singer, is too notorious.

The good guy success by being good, the bad guy dies and now everything is right on this island because the good guy fought for his country. It sounds too close to an official speech, and I don’t like official speeches.