NOTORIOUS DVD Review — Hunter says this film is unable to do with words and images what Wallace so perfectly captured with his rhymes

Written by Hunter M. Daniels

In school we are indoctrinated with mythological stories about the founding fathers. Told tales of how Abe Lincoln walked 20 miles to return a penny and how George Washington was incapable of telling a lie. These stories are silly at best and jingoistic at worst. Little parables designed to lull us into the idea that the people who wrote the constitution were somehow superhuman and infallible.

So too is Notorious the Sean “Diddy” Comb’s produced biography of the late Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace.

This is not a film about the life and times of the slain rapper so much as it is a puff piece* about the alleged glamour of the hip-hop world. The real Wallace wrote taut lyrics dripping in melancholy over the poor choices that he regretted making. The movie just wants you to think, …

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NOTORIOUS DVD Review — Hunter says this film is unable to do with words and images what Wallace so perfectly captured with his rhymes