The Wire 1x07 Reaction
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yall need to watch gomorrah
It’s surprising how bad the English subtitles are for this given the popularity of the show and its reputation for even native speakers having difficulty with the accents and slang. One example in this that stood out was when they had Bunk say “I was all metro attack.” What does that even mean! Haha. The line was “I was all metro as heck”. At the time this came out the term “metrosexual” was popularised because of male celebrities like David Beckham taking more care in their appearance and shows like “Queer eye for the straight guy” being on tv. It was a fad word that came and went and nowadays is best remembered for a South Park episode that parodied the phenomenon. It happens all the time in this show, you’d think they’d give it another pass!
This is just straight wrong. He's saying he's All-Metro Attack, i.e., in Lacrosse (which he was talking about half a second earlier) he played Attack and was 'All-Metro' akin to someone being 'All-State' - he was the best in his area (the metropolitan high school area, hence Metro.) It is actually comical how wrong you are with your whole chest lmao.
Despite how flawed our current justice system is this show shows that it has improved a lot in a short amount of time. Back during the time of this show police brutality and injustice would have happened so much more often that it was just the normal, but now when stuff like that happens you see pushback and those responsible held accountable. Obviously not all the time and there’s still many issues but in most places if any cop behaved to the degree of those in this show they would get checked very fast. I think it’s mainly due to the fact they are being recorded and shown to the world through social media and other places but despite why those who behave like this are being help far more responsible than they were during the show so that’s a huge reason in my opinion it has changed since than. Maybe not as much as it should’ve but I think it has gotten a lot better than in this show and hopefully continues. Obviously it’s still a very flawed system that needs reworking I’m just pointing out that I don’t believe it’s the same today as it was in this show, still bad just not to this degree.
It is. at best .5% better. As long as there is Qualified Immunity for police officers, continued militarization (that views and frames crime as war) and the wall of blue code exists, police are going to use excessive force. Google LASD Gangs.
That Narcotics Anonymous scene and your discussion about it hit hard. I knew a guy back in high school who was going down that path, I didn't know the right words or what to do at the time to help him, we were just teenagers. I eventually lost contact with him, but now I wonder if he ever got the help he needed. Great discussion as always, I assure you this show just keeps getting better with all of the potential storylines
Sure, but still for a time I thought if I could have done something differently, it ultimately depends if the person wants to be helped and wants to make a change, but at that age maybe a little more persistence could have helped
Yeeeahhhhhhh. Living for these Wire reactions 👊