Luckily, it does a few more things very well.
#STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON SONG MOVIE#
These are powerful scenes, the most affecting ones that I can remember seeing on the topic and if this movie does nothing but inspire this feeling of discontent in a few more people it will be a remarkable success.
The anger and the despair and the hopelessness of the situation feels so current and relevant and it only magnifies these feelings to know we’ve accomplished so little in the intervening years when it comes to policing minority populations.
The world they show us to contextualize the writing of “Fuck tha Police” feels very much like the world we see so very often on the news or in our own communities. That we could look at the events of this movie, now a quarter of a century gone, and think of them as the past when instead it feels like the present. I wish Straight Outta Compton felt as old as it is. The movie we got is a powerful touchstone piece in documenting and dramatizing the rise of West Coast gangster rap. That would have been a terrible movie, a tragic misrepresentation of the struggles that really took place. It was a bad trailer, rather an unrepresentative one, which made it look like a movie about Jerry Heller trying to get the police and the music establishment to treat his clients with respect. When I saw the first trailer for Straight Outta Compton I leaned over to my girlfriend and said, “Oh my God, are they making the story of N.W.A into a white savior movie?” and she looked back at me with fear in her eyes.
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