I didn’t know much about the independent film industry when I started reading this chapter, but I learned a lot of new information. I learned about the different types of independent film making. I didn’t know that there were different types of independent films for instance black, Asian, queer and white. When I was reading about the different films that independent film makers have made I found that a lot of them use sex as their topics. After reading this chapter it didn’t make me want to be a independent film watcher. Some of the topics that they use in their films are things I don’t want to watch.

The movie Sex, Lies, and Videotape was a bit weird. It was very hard to find the movie to watch. Every blockbuster I went to didn’t have it. I did find it at a privately owned video store on VHS. When I was watching the film I didn’t see why this film was so great and got such wonderful reviews. It was interesting to watch how the film was made because it is different from main stream movies but it’s story line was stupid to me. You can tell that not a lot of money went into the movie. I did think that the acting could have been better. I found the actor to be awkward towards each other. I would have never rented this movie if it wasn’t for this class and after watching it I wouldn’t rent it again. It wasn’t a great movie at all.

The second movie I watched was Jungle Fever I didn’t like this movie. I don’t care for all the racism and racist language going on and I know that what the movie is about. I don’t really understand why the big deal was that she was white and he was black it was more to me that he cheated on his wife. Which is not an ok thing to do regardless of what color you are. I had never seen any of Spike lee’s films before and I don’t think I will be renting any others. I don’t really agree with his view on life.

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