Style Wars

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This film, Style Wars, was filmed in the Bronx, New York, in 1983. It is about the Hip-Hop culture and it starting in the Bronx. There is bboying and rapping throughout the film. But the film is also about  how young teens use their graffiti to express themselves. And how some people don't understand why teens do graffiti and they think it's vandalism.

In the film they show young teens showing their point of view of graffiti and why they like it. In the film they also show views of one of the graffiti artists' mother, officials, subway maintenance, and the New York City Mayor during the time, who think that graffiti is vandalism.

I understand both views on the teens that use graffiti to express themselves through their art and how others see it as vandalism to the street. Some people want the streets and walls, buildings, and trains clean, While others want to express themselves on these things and don't see why the other people see it as a problem. All in all, I like this film and the way it was made, and how it shows back in the day.