So, I read the Autobiography of Malcolm X recently and it was such a good compelling read, I checked out Spike Lee's 1992 movie.
It was alright, you can really see Spikes talents started early, but boy is it long and despite that I still think it should have included more. I feel like we should have seen maybe more of his youth, let that part breathe, and I didn't really like some of the adaptations for the screen: squashing Sammy the Pimp and West Indian Archie into one role made things weird, chronologically, and I never read Archie as like, a boss to Sammy like that. Likewise, the complete omission of Malcolms blood brothers and sisters is egregious, especially missing is his brother Reginald getting him into Islam -his character gets rolled awkwardly into Bimbi, in prison- as well as his sister, Ella, who plays such a critical role in his life it's really weird how she's just not there.
I can't help but marvel how different things could have been if he weren't murdered.
if yer gonna kill a bug
don’t do it jus because
I like bugs
and i’ll tell ya why
they’re alive
and so am i
bugs