Movie Review

Belly
I watched Belly for the first time when I was eleven. My father wanted to show me a series of "the best movies" in his opinion. The list included Shogun the Assassin, the Godfather series, Fresh, Scarface, etc. Belly was centered around two main characters Sincere, and Tommy. Sincere was played by Nas, my favorite artist, which immediately caught my attention when the movie started.

The opening scene of Belly pictures thousands of black youth celebrating the new millennium and having what seemed to be a grand time to me at the age of eleven. Throughout the movie, drugs are sold, people are killed, and money is made. Sincere grows tired of it all, and after a fiasco with an old partner in crime of whom he kills, Sincere is left wounded, and decides it's time for him and his family to move back to the motherland, Africa.