Just got done watching Boyz n The Hood for the first time. God damn, the last 20 minutes were just too fucking brutal. I'm normally a complete hard ass and I still got really sad at the whole ending. If you ever want to get depressed, this is the ideal film for it.
Going on this note, I feel that the modern label of "culturally significant media" is simply used too often and simply isn't reserved anymore for the few works of art that actually are culturally significant; take Boyz, for example, it was a clear denunciation of the LA ghetto lifestyle, and it's still unbelievably powerful 20 years after it came out and 10 years after the situation started being under control.
With that said, I was wondering what media other Escapists would consider as truly culturally significant. It could be anything like music, movies, games, etc; although movies will probably make up a large portion of the list.
Going on this note, I feel that the modern label of "culturally significant media" is simply used too often and simply isn't reserved anymore for the few works of art that actually are culturally significant; take Boyz, for example, it was a clear denunciation of the LA ghetto lifestyle, and it's still unbelievably powerful 20 years after it came out and 10 years after the situation started being under control.
With that said, I was wondering what media other Escapists would consider as truly culturally significant. It could be anything like music, movies, games, etc; although movies will probably make up a large portion of the list.