tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post5932827170219975652..comments2024-03-28T17:08:01.559-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: The Wire: HomecomingBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-70908888913853052282022-11-22T14:49:45.110-05:002022-11-22T14:49:45.110-05:00Wanting to comment on two very small scenes.
One, ...Wanting to comment on two very small scenes.<br />One, the scene between Donette and Brianna. How the young woman wants to get even with her quasi-mother-in-law, tell her that she‘s with Stringer, sort of (who makes her feel safe, o.m.g.!!) - and everything runs smoothly, a nice intimate heart-to-heart over brushing and grooming ... and then, when Donette mentions the cop and his visit, his talk about D‘s death maybe not being a suicide .. wow! How something in Bri suddenly clicks into place, yet she needs to keep on combing Donette‘s oh-so-straight hair, without giving away anything. Splendid acting, both of them! Setting also great.<br /><br />And the next scene, Rhonda and Cedric‘s heart-to-heart, when he explains his motives to stand by his wife until election (a year away!!), she‘s a little disappointed, but still ok and playing it kinda cool. But then, OUCH!! How he does not want to be seen “... with a white woman on my arm“, that really drove his point home. He and Marla were, and still are about Black Power, about being upwardly mobile, making their way up the ladder against all odds, without violence and crime, but with a lot of input and hard work. Even though their ideas differ for now how to do it, they‘re still on the same page in more than one book.<br /><br />Two scenes that are not spectacular, not heroic and/or action-loaded. But they explore such depths, one of a mother still mourning her only son, one of a still married couple bound by more than sex. All three longing for social justice, and in that, I think, representing the show‘s very core.<br />(And yeah, Rhonda is not included here ... justice is her business, but the longing for it is not in her heart).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com