Kelly's Post
This was a very interesting movie to watch critically. The element of the film that stood out strongest for me was the reasoning behind the bank robberies. Unlike other movies where black men are depicted as being violent, black women apparently need social and economic reasons to warrant the same action. Each woman had something traumatic happen to her (with the exception of Cleo but as viewers we are supposed to read her as the shallowest of the quad). Springer points this fact out in her essay, but she leaves out the comparison between how black men are portrayed as violent versus how black women are portrayed in Hollywood cinema. Apparently, black men do not need any reasons for their violent behavior, but women do.