On January 9th we
will be watching Good Hair, a documentary by Chris Rock looking at the way
people, especially African-Americans, look at hair and the power it has over
people and the way we look at others.
Now Chris Rock is an actor and comedian, so he does have
some credibility on the big screen. However, he is only doing this documentary
in regards to a question his three year old daughter asked him, “daddy, why don’t
I have good hair?” so from there we can imagine that Mr. Rock probably has a
bit of a bias in telling the story of the hair industry.
There are two articles containing reviews of the movie Good
Hair, you can read the first by Stephen Cole of the Globe and Mail at this link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/good-hair/article1324904/
And a second by Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times at this link:
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/09/entertainment/et-good-hair9
The Trailer for the movie you can watch by following this link:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/good-hair/article1324904/
also feel free to take a look at some of the clips from the movie they have linked to the trailer. I took a lot from these clips to make the discussion questions, so watching them might be helpful.
