What connections can you make between Malcolm X and Ganja & Hess?
Both Malcolm and ganja and Hess focus on the black race. Malcolm X talks about his hustle and struggle and how he stood out because of his color which is nor black enough for blacks and neither white enough for whites. Hess talks his struggle of being addicted to blood and not being able to live like a normal human. Both the novel and movie shows prostitution and use of alcohol. Also it barely shows any white men or talks about it. The story is mostly revolving around the blacks.
I agree with you because I also tried to find connections between Malcolm X and the film and you are right. This movie shows a different perspective of the problems that Malcolms X has went trough. I also would like to add that religion plays a very important role in this movie because that is how Hess breaks his curse. to finish I will say this movie was a good method to show black people in a new perspective and we learned how black people was able to do really good films but at that time many people did not care about this type of art.
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