So much this. And I gotta love ‘The Wire’ for doing a comprehensive view on society from different angles, clearly highlighting the “wrong zip code” effect: bodies that don’t matter because they were black people in a poor neighborhood. Only hurt/dead white people in rich areas get people even remotely interested, especially when looking at the big picture instead of single cases.
Even in Joker that was one of the main point that’s said in the movie: “had it been me the one in the ground you would have stepped on me without even looking down. But because they were rich white blond guys it’s a tragedy” (not his exact words, I know).
That line is heartbreaking when you learn that Joaquin Phoenix’s IRL brother died of a heroin overdose in the streets of New York while people stepped over his dying and dead body.
So much this. And I gotta love ‘The Wire’ for doing a comprehensive view on society from different angles, clearly highlighting the “wrong zip code” effect: bodies that don’t matter because they were black people in a poor neighborhood. Only hurt/dead white people in rich areas get people even remotely interested, especially when looking at the big picture instead of single cases.
Even in Joker that was one of the main point that’s said in the movie: “had it been me the one in the ground you would have stepped on me without even looking down. But because they were rich white blond guys it’s a tragedy” (not his exact words, I know).
That line is heartbreaking when you learn that Joaquin Phoenix’s IRL brother died of a heroin overdose in the streets of New York while people stepped over his dying and dead body.