'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.
I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'
When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.
I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.