The Harder They Come Review
1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?
I like this movie because we can see another business and unclear world so geographically distant for us: the reggae music world, one that showed us like a documentary: with some "realness" flavour. We can enjoy all the famous songs but the story behind (and social context) only a few times. This was really something to me, even for a fiction story I could get interested and look for more information about this music genre.
But there was something I didn't like in this film and this was the decisions that Ivan took in the movie, maybe there was from author reasons, but scenes like "I kill a police because I don't like physical punishment over me" was a little too much and separated me from the plot.
2. Who is your favorite character from the film?
Even for being so distant from him around the movie, my favorite character was Ivan Martin. The anti-hero treatment was so successfully achieved that I actually hate the character in some points of the story and loved in scenes with her mother. A real hero journey for Ivan that take an important amount of sacrifice and realization to reach a decent life, just like if Perry Henzell (director of the movie) tell the story of all jamaican people with Ivan aventures.
3. Would you recommend this film to someone, why/why not?
Yes, I think that is really important for everyone in Latin America because we can see the argument so near to everything that happens in our side of the continent: drugs, poverty and music move and relate to our lives.
4. How does this film contribute to postcolonial identity?
The film contributes to postcolonial identity in a form of identify national cinemas with jamaican like an example of constant fight between the State powers and the people, the use of music like a weapon of popular knowledge and the need of being more than the ghetto can give me, be more and change all that the capitalism itself contributes to create and opress.
I like this movie because we can see another business and unclear world so geographically distant for us: the reggae music world, one that showed us like a documentary: with some "realness" flavour. We can enjoy all the famous songs but the story behind (and social context) only a few times. This was really something to me, even for a fiction story I could get interested and look for more information about this music genre.
But there was something I didn't like in this film and this was the decisions that Ivan took in the movie, maybe there was from author reasons, but scenes like "I kill a police because I don't like physical punishment over me" was a little too much and separated me from the plot.
2. Who is your favorite character from the film?
Even for being so distant from him around the movie, my favorite character was Ivan Martin. The anti-hero treatment was so successfully achieved that I actually hate the character in some points of the story and loved in scenes with her mother. A real hero journey for Ivan that take an important amount of sacrifice and realization to reach a decent life, just like if Perry Henzell (director of the movie) tell the story of all jamaican people with Ivan aventures.
3. Would you recommend this film to someone, why/why not?
Yes, I think that is really important for everyone in Latin America because we can see the argument so near to everything that happens in our side of the continent: drugs, poverty and music move and relate to our lives.
4. How does this film contribute to postcolonial identity?
The film contributes to postcolonial identity in a form of identify national cinemas with jamaican like an example of constant fight between the State powers and the people, the use of music like a weapon of popular knowledge and the need of being more than the ghetto can give me, be more and change all that the capitalism itself contributes to create and opress.
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